Tzfat

Tzfat is a city where the Jewish tradition of mysticism began. Not the Cabbalah of Madonna, as our tour guide likes to remind us, but rather the true mystical tradition of Joseph Caro and those rabbis who chose to live there in the sixteenth century and thereafter. Today many artists have made their homes and established studios there, though some of them have decided that because of the influx of the many new religious Jews in town, it was best to move to another place (Rosh Pinah, see below).

There are two synagogues we visited, each one dating back from four hundred and more years ago. Here are some pictures of those synagogues and our group visiting and learning about the presence of the mystics there.