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The Eini Building – “The Cursed House”
A Jerusalem legend tells that when the Eini brothers built the building
at 111 Agripas Street, it disturbed the Yemenite Rabbi Mordechai
Sharabi, who lived in a small house adjacent to the building that was
being built. The Rabbi didn’t want the building to block the light and
breach (hurt) his privacy, but the building was built.
The legend tells that the Kabbalist Rabbi “cursed” the building and
since then every building that was open was soon afterwards closed...
In the book “A Literary Murder” the author Batya Gur mentions the
Me’ir Restaurant in the cursed building, that every time you go there
you fear that perhaps it has closed already…
A person who looks closely at the building can notice that it doesn’t
block the little house’s light at all, and it is known that Rabbi Sharabi
liked only to bless and to help a lot of people. But that is the strength
of legends.

Did the Kabbalist Rabbi really curse the building? You decide

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