Safed

 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.

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An average door in Safed

Safed
Bullet holes in the building from the invasion of Safed in 1948

Close
A close-up of the bullet holes

Caro
The synagogue of Joseph Caro, a Kabbalist from the 1500's who wrote the Shulchan Aruch

Dog
Self-explanatory

Dome
A view in the old city of Safed

Graves
The famous graveyard of Safed, where Joseph Caro, Shlomo Alkabez, the Ari, and others are buried

Far
The valley

Guys
These guys asked me to take their pictures. They were joking but I did it anyway.

Messiah
Graffiti that reads - "May the King Messiah [arrive]"

Tower
Safed used to be a mixed town, of Arabs and Jews, before the Arabs were kicked out of the Golan

New City
The new city of Safed

Old City
The old city of Safed

Palm Beach
Go Palm Beach!

Rebbe
A poster advertising the the belief that the Lubavitcher Rebbe, of Blessed Memory, is the messiah

Stairs
The stairs that seperate the old city from the new city

Stairs
The stairs

Street
Streets in the old city

Street
Streets

Street
The artist's colony, closed before Shabbat

Street
The artists' colony. Safed attracts a lot of hippie types

Street
A street in the old city



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