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Diarna Insights No. 4: Tomb of The Baba Sali's Grandfather, Damanhour, Egypt

In this edition of The Diarna Geo-Museum of North African and Middle Eastern Jewish Life's Insights Series we travel deep into the Nile Delta to visit the tomb of one of Morocco's greatest rabbis, the grandfather of the Baba Sali. Located in Damanhour (Damanhur) (دمنهور), about 35 miles south east of Alexandria, Egypt, is the tomb of Rabbi Ya’akov Abuhatzera (Abuhasera) (רבי יעקב אבוחצירא), who is known as the Abir Yaakov (אביר יעקב) (“Prince Jacob” ). Born in Morocco’s southeast Tafilalet region early in the 19th century, the Abir Ya’akov is credited with building a following on the edge of the Sahara. Apparently sensing his own mortality, he set out at an advanced age on a trek across the Maghreb towards Jerusalem. He only made it as far as Damanhour, a city whose embattled Jewish community had endured a succession of pogroms in the 1870s over false accusations of ritual murder, reverberations of the Damascus Blood Libel. During his stay, the rabbi emerged as a figure revered not only by Jews but also Muslims, who deemed him a wali, or holy man. After he died of illness on January 4, 1880 (20 Tevet 5640), his shrine soon became a pilgrimage destination for Jews and Muslims. Ya’akov’s grandson, Yisrael Abuhatzeira—known as the Baba Sali, or “Praying Father” —led an obscure existence in the labyrinthine Jewish quarter of Rissani, Morocco, until settling in the 1950s in the southern Israeli town of Netivot (until recently a regular target of rocket fire from Gaza). So great was the Baba Sali’s subsequent fame that today in many Jewish communities his visage vies for ubiquity with that of the late Lubavitcher Rebbe. After the Camp David Accords, thousands of Jews from around the world would come to mark the hillula, or anniversary of the Abir Ya'akov's death. In recent years, however, a campaign lead by Islamists and Leftists restricted, then prevented, access. While closed to pilgrims since 2011, the shrine has mysteriously been restored. Renovated yet devoid of pilgrims, the tomb rests in its silent glory, waiting for the days when visitors are allowed back to visit and pay their respects to this great rabbi. To learn more read: "A Monumental Test for Egypt," The Algemeiner, 31 December 2012, Available from: http://stfi.re/agvzpkb