Collection
Location of archival items, responsa and articles in the corpus that cite the lineage or its variants.
The Hedaya Family
Write the Great Bookהדיה
Origin of the name, history and genealogy of the Hedaya lineage — a Jewish family name and the traces it left behind.
Aleppine rabbinic family. Obadia Hedaya, kabbalist and Rosh Yeshivah of the Beit El in Jerusalem, was one of the great figures of Lurianic Kabbalah of the 20th century.
Geographic origin: Alep, Jérusalem
Memory register · custodian, not owner
A book yet to be written
The Great Book of the Hedaya lineage has not yet been written.
Claude Opus 4.8 will compose an original work from archival items in the corpus that mention this lineage, in-depth web research, and family contributions already submitted. The work will comprise approximately 30 to 40 pages — introduction, 5 to 7 chapters, conclusion — and will be automatically enriched with each new contribution.
Web research
Claude explores external sources (encyclopaedias, academic databases, digital archives).
Writing
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In the meantime
Lineage Map
This book tells the story of the Hedaya. Your own family may also have its Great Book — search your name to discover it, or to bring it to life.
To explore more deeply the memory, family archives, and testimonies of the lineage Hedaya, remember and share its dedicated address:
zakhor.ai/hedayaThe address zakhor.ai/hedaya leads directly to this page. The archives, genealogy, and accounts that the community deposits there will complement the historical portrait presented here.
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Link
https://zakhor.ai/hedayaHTML
<a href="https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/hedaya">Hedaya — Zakhor</a>Citation
Hedaya — Zakhor, https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/hedayaVariants of the name (2)
One name, a hundred faces.
The same surname, transcribed differently across languages, eras, and diasporas.
Latin1
Hedayah
עברית · Hebrew1
הדיה
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Notable figures
- 1.
Obadia Hedaya
Kabbaliste, Rosh Yeshivah de Beit El
In memory
The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names at Yad Vashem records the women, men, and children murdered during the Shoah. You can search there for the people who bore the name Hedaya.
Search “Hedaya” on Yad VashemThe search is performed directly in the Yad Vashem archives; Zakhor neither copies nor retains any personal data. The presence or absence of a name in the database is not exhaustive. Learn more
Notable figures of the lineage
Places along the journey
Communities crossed
Diaspora regions
SyrieTerre d'Israël
The days of this book
This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Hedaya give years and centuries, never a day; we do not invent one.
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