Charity that supported Jewish residents of the Yishuv
Not to be confused with Halakha.
For web framework, see Haluka.
Old Yishuv
Jewish community in the Land of Israel under Mamluk and Ottoman rule
Key events
Nachmanides Aliya (1263)
Alhambra decree (1492)
Manuel I decree (1496)
Hebron and Safed massacres (1517)
Revival of Tiberias (1563)
Sack of Tiberias (1660)
Plunder of Safed (June 1834)
Hebron massacre (August 1834)
Safed attack (1838)
Jerusalem expansion
Moshavot establishment
Key figures
Nachmanides (d.1270)
Joseph Saragossi (d. 1507)
Obadiah MiBartenura (d. 1515)
Abraham ben Eliezer Halevi (d. 1528)
Levi ibn Habib (d. 1545)
Jacob Berab (d. 1546)
Joseph Nasi (d. 1579)
Moses Galante (d. 1689)
Moses ibn Habib (d. 1696)
Yehuda he-Hasid (d. 1700)
Haim Abulafia (d. 1744)
Menachem Mendel (d. 1788)
Haim Farhi (d. 1820)
Aaron Hershler (d. 1873)
Jacob Saphir (d. 1886)
Haim Aharon Valero (d. 1923)
Economy
Etrog cultivation
Winemaking
Banking
Printing
Soap production
Textiles
Philanthropy
Kollel
Halukka
Montefiore
Judah Touro
Communities
Musta'arabim
Sephardim
Perushim
Hasidim
Jerusalem
Mea Shearim
Mishkenot Sha'ananim
Hebron
Safed
Tiberias
Biriya
Jaffa
Haifa
Peki'in
Acco
Shechem
Gaza
Kafr Yasif
Shefa-'Amr
Petah Tikva
Synagogues
Great Academy of Paris (1258)
Ramban (1267)
Abuhav (1490s)
Abraham Avinu (1540)
Ari (1570s)
Johanan ben Zakai (1600s)
Hurva (1700)
Tifereth Israel (1872)
Related articles
History of Israel
Four Holy Cities
Applicability of religious laws
History of Zionism
Timeline
Pre-Modern Aliyah
Return to Zion
Three Oaths
Haredim and Zionism
Edah HaChareidis
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The halukka, also spelled haluka, halukkah or chalukah (Hebrew: חלוקה, meaning distribution) was an organized collection and distribution of charity funds for Jewish residents of the Land of Israel (the Holy Land).
The halukka, also spelled haluka, halukkah or chalukah (Hebrew: חלוקה, meaning distribution) was an organized collection and distribution of charity funds...
primarily consisted of religious Jews who relied on external donations (halukka) for support. The Old Yishuv evolved following a significant decline in...
Old Yishuv spent their time studying the Torah and lived off charity (halukka), donated by Jews in the Diaspora.[clarification needed] The term New Yishuv...
concentrated in the Four Holy Cities, extremely poor and relied on donations (halukka) from groups abroad, while the new settlements were small farming communities...
these immigrants were Ashkenazi Jews from Eastern Europe, who subsisted on Halukka. Published in 1883, the PEF Survey of Palestine volume which covered the...
communities in form of a tithe, a tenth of one's income, a practice called halukka and already used for supporting the religious groups inhabiting the Jewish...
trades so they could become self-supporting, rather than relying on the halukka welfare distribution. The manager was a Christian named Dunn who believed...
שְׁלוּחָא דְרַבָּנָן), was an emissary sent to the Diaspora to raise funds (ḥalukka) for the existence of the Jewish settlement in the Land of Israel. The...
a prehistoric archaeological site in Alaska An alternative spelling of halukka, a process of collection and distribution of charity funds for early Zionism...
He was also the author of Chukei Chaim, a work addressing the debate on halukka, and Sefer Chaim MiYerushalaim, a collection of derashot. He supported...
The idea behind it was weaning the residents from their reliance on the halukka, or charity. Montefiore believed that a mill could provide them with a...
with rabbis from Mea Shearim. He also responded to requests to review the halukka records, and sent recommendation letters helping the rabbi responsible...
of rabbi Hezekiah da Silva. After a journey to Europe in behalf of the halukka fund, he was elected rabbi of Smyrna, where he remained forty years. At...
in Achor, but the group was thwarted by brigands in the employ of the halukka (charity distribution) leaders, who were suspicious of Salomon's motives...
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