בארדיטשוב

אוהל רבי לוי יצחק מבארדיטשוב

Ohel of Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berdychiv

Old Jewish Cemetery, Berdychiv 13300, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine

• The old Jewish cemetery sits just before the railway crossing; the ohel is reached by a long curving road from the entrance and stands out with white masonry and fencing.
• Roughly 100,000 pilgrims visit each year (per Chabad of Berdichev).
• Ukraine wartime travel advisories apply — confirm conditions and access before traveling.
• Read this before you go, and before you tell anybody else where to stand. Work around the ohel uncovered the original matzeivos of the Kedushas Levi and his three sons — in a different place from the matzeivah people have been davening at since after the churban. The ohel was put up in 1991 over a spot chosen in Soviet times, and it is reported not to be the grave. Nobody who davened there did anything wrong and the tefillos are not worth less. But if you are going specifically to stand at the kever, ask whoever is looking after the site now where the uncovered matzeivos are, rather than walking to the ohel and assuming.
• 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.