393 years ago, at the beginning of Kislev (November 1621), Rabbi Isaiah Horovitz entered the gates of Jerusalem. He commemorated this uplifting event by naming the prayerbook he wrote "The Gate of Heaven".
The Parsha, the portion of the Torah read that week, was Vayetze, which tells us of Jacob's dream. When Jacob wakes up, he looks around and says 'How full of awe is this place! this is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven' (Genesis 28, 17).
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