אוהל רבי יצחק מווארקא

Warka — Ohel of Rabbi Yitzchak of Vorki

Warka (Vorki) · ווארקא

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Jewish cemetery, on the hill above the Pilica by the railway bridge, ulica Baczynskiego, Warka, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland

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1.The town of Reb Yitzchak Kalish of Vorki, known for his boundless love of every Jew. An ohel here is held to stand over his kever.
2.THE SURVEY CALLS IT THE ALLEGED TOMB, AND SO DOES THIS PAGE. The ohel is red brick with metal steps, put up after vandals destroyed the one before it, and it marks where Reb Yitzchak of Vorki is held to lie. That is the strongest thing any source found will say.
3.IT IS ON THE HILL ABOVE THE PILICA, by the railway bridge on ulica Baczynskiego. Half a hectare, opened between 1795 and 1811 and twice enlarged.
4.COME PREPARED FOR THE STATE OF IT. No matzevos survive at all. The ground is abandoned and used as a dumping place, littered with bottles, and the walls carry anti-Semitic graffiti. The town owns it and nobody is stationed there.
5.THE RIVER HAS EXPOSED HUMAN REMAINS along the bank. Know that before you walk the edge of the ground, and keep well away from it.
6.SURVEYED COORDINATES. The map point on this listing is the cemetery itself, measured on the ground by the ESJF survey — not a town centre. Where a kever is inside an ohel it will still need finding once you are through the gate, but the gate is now something you can navigate to.

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Warsaw (WAW)Warsaw Chopin· 45 km · 28 mi straight-line· major hub
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Lublin (LUZ)Lublin· 122 km · 76 mi straight-line· regional
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Rzeszów (RZE)Rzeszów-Jasionka· 195 km · 121 mi straight-line· regional
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Who is buried here

Known kevarim

רבי יצחק קאליש מווארקא

Rabbi Yitzchak Kalish of Vorki

The Vorker Rebbe

Yahrzeit: כ״ב ניסן · 5608 / 1848

Founder of the Vorki (Warka) chassidus, remembered for extraordinary ahavas Yisrael and his advocacy for the community.

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