Hallel
Many Sephardic congregations say Hallel, with or without a blessing according to their rabbis, as on Yom Ha'atzmaut.
Yom Ha'atzmaut and HallelHolidays28 Iyar · Jerusalem Day
The reunification of Jerusalem in 1967, and thanks for the city Sephardic Jews prayed toward for centuries.
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On the 28th of Iyar 5727, 7 June 1967, during the Six-Day War, the Old City of Jerusalem and the Western Wall came under Jewish sovereignty for the first time in nearly two thousand years.
The Sephardic community of Jerusalem is among the oldest continuous Jewish communities in the city, with its four synagogues of Rabban Yohanan ben Zakkai in the Jewish Quarter, destroyed in 1948 and rebuilt after 1967.
Every prayer, every Birkat HaMazon and every wedding remembers Jerusalem. On this day we give thanks that we can pray at its Wall.
In the synagogue
Many Sephardic congregations say Hallel, with or without a blessing according to their rabbis, as on Yom Ha'atzmaut.
Yom Ha'atzmaut and HallelMost Sephardic congregations omit Tahanun.
Psalm 122, "I rejoiced when they said to me, let us go to the House of the Lord," and Psalm 137, "If I forget you, Jerusalem."
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The reunification of Jerusalem and the return to the Western Wall during the Six-Day War, on 28 Iyar 1967.
Many Sephardic congregations do, with or without a blessing according to their rabbis.