Hiloula of Rabbi Haïm Pinto is the

Yom Hillula A ''Yom Hillula'' ( he, יום הילולא, day of festivity) is another word for ''yahrzeit'' (the anniversary of a death). However, it differs from a regular ''yahrzeit'' in two respects. It refers specifically to the ''yahrzeit'' of a great Tz ...

, or anniversary of the death of Rabbi Haïm Pinto. It is one of the most popular Hiloulas in

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. It is celebrated in

Essaouira Essaouira ( ; ar, الصويرة, aṣ-Ṣawīra; shi, ⵜⴰⵚⵚⵓⵔⵜ, Taṣṣort, formerly ''Amegdul''), known until the 1960s as Mogador, is a port city in the western Moroccan region of Marakesh-Safi, on the Atlantic coast. It ha ...

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. Every year, more than 2000 Jewish pilgrims visit the city for a four-days celebration to commemorate the memory of the

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History

Rabbi Haïm Pinto (1743–1845) was the chief rabbi of the city of

, and part of a distinguished rabbinic family. After his death on 26

Elul Elul ( he, אֱלוּל, Standard ''ʾElūl'', Tiberian ''ʾĔlūl'') is the twelfth month of the Jewish civil year and the sixth month of the ecclesiastical year on the Hebrew calendar. It is a month of 29 days. Elul usually occurs in August� ...

of the year 5605 of the

Hebrew calendar The Hebrew calendar ( he, הַלּוּחַ הָעִבְרִי, translit=HaLuah HaIvri), also called the Jewish calendar, is a lunisolar calendar used today for Jewish religious observance, and as an official calendar of the state of Israel. I ...

, his mausoleum, as well as his house became places of pilgrimage and Jews from all over the world come to pray in the family synagogue, and at his grave in the old Jewish cemetery of the city. File:Cimetières Juifs Essaouira wykmn 003.jpg, Tomb of Rabbi Haïm Pinto File:Old Jewish cemetery of Essaouira.jpg, Mausoleum of Rabbi Haïm Pinto File:Synagogue Rabbi Haim Pinto.jpg, Synagogue of Rabbi Haïm Pinto

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