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TZFAT – CITY OF THE WISE
The ancient cemetery of Tzfat is a history book of the Jewish
People throughout the period of the exile.
It is the location of the gravesites of the Tanna’im from the
era of the destruction of the Second Holy Temple. Rabbi Yehoshua
ben Chananya was one of the Levites who served in the Holy
Temple, and transmitted the Torah to Rabbi Akiva. His student,
Rabbi Pinchas ben Yair, the father-in-law of Rabbi Shimon bar
Yochai, was also from that generation.
Since then and to this very day, it has marked the burial place
for generations upon generations of Jews who lived in the Land
of Israel and clung to it despite the tremendous hardships. In
the heart of the cemetery, there are the gravesites of the holy
Ari, his student, Rabbi Yosef Caro, and his disciples.
These two great scholars emigrated to Tzfat five hundred years
ago and re-established the city, bringing to the world a unique
spiritual intensity that has guided the Jewish People ever
since.
Rabbi Yosef Caro understood that the Redemption depends upon the
unity of the Jewish People. Unity begins in the spiritual sense,
and therefore he proceeded successfully to compile one work of
Torah that would unite the entire House of Israel. The Ari, of
blessed memory, knew that the Redemption of the Jewish People
depended upon the revelation of the strengths of its most inner
existence, and he began to reveal gleanings from the great
treasures concealed in the holy Zohar by Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai
to his student, Rabbi Yosef Caro.
This website is designed to reveal and bring closer to our
visitors the secrets, the wise, and the ancient synagogues of
the Holy City of Tzfat. |
TZFAT KABBALAH
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