Safed (pronounced: Tze-faat) is a town three hours
north of Jerusalem, near the Galilee. In the 1500's it was a major center
for Kabbalah.
An average door in Safed
Bullet holes in the building from the invasion of Safed in 1948
A close-up of the bullet holes
The synagogue of Joseph Caro, a Kabbalist from the 1500's who wrote the Shulchan
Aruch
Self-explanatory
A view in the old city of Safed
The famous graveyard of Safed, where Joseph Caro, Shlomo Alkabez, the Ari,
and others are buried
The valley
These guys asked me to take their pictures. They were joking but I did it
anyway.
Graffiti that reads - "May the King Messiah [arrive]"
Safed used to be a mixed town, of Arabs and Jews, before the Arabs were kicked
out of the Golan
The new city of Safed
The old city of Safed
Go Palm Beach!
A poster advertising the the belief that the Lubavitcher Rebbe, of Blessed
Memory, is the messiah
The stairs that seperate the old city from the new city
The stairs
Streets in the old city
Streets
The artist's colony, closed before Shabbat
The artists' colony. Safed attracts a lot of hippie types
A street in the old city