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Safed Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Safed, Israel
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Day 11: Tzfat
This is a top pick! ... who are playing and at the same time raising some money. That will be for our next trip to Israel! Monday's intention is "Keep Perspective. All things are transient. (Subtitle: This too will pass). Today there ...
Tiberias, A Castle and Safed, mystical jews
... west bank and learned of the three types of "disputed" territories. A) Fully run and security by Arabs, B) Run by Arabs security Israel and C) Run and Security by Israel. The Oslo peace accords in a nut shell. It was interesting to cross the Jordan River ...
Safed, Zippori, Nazareth and Bet She'an
... supply of sexual jokes I learned, Matt informed me of the true meaning of the letters in KFC (yes folks, they have KFCs in Israel). Apparently it means Kristen Farts Constantly. I don't know where he got that, but he sure doesn't know me well enough to ...
Getting in touch with my Spirituality
... While I had many deep experiences, I also celebrated Purim the way its supposed to be done. From the outside it looks like Israel’s version of Halloween, everyone young and old in costumes and a lot of drinking. It lasts two nights and on the first ...
Safed: Jewish hippies
Safed, Israel Day 15 Haifa/Zafat, Isreal 4/20/09 Today is Holocaust Memorial day! We are driving to Zafat and will drive through Akko and Haifa. First we go to Haifa, in Haifa we go to the Baha'i Shrine & Gardens. The Baha'i gardens are in ...
Last full day together
... environment inside by trapping moisture. For dinner we had a special wine and cheese banquet and closing ceremony with Gia from Israel Experts at Kibbutz Nachshon. A few of our soldiers came back to visit. It was so nice to spend a final ...
Work, Day 3 and Sfat
Again, the food was the same as the days before and so was the routine. However, the Madrichot had spoken with some people on the base and made sure that we had more work and weren't sitting around as much. Also, I think the people in charge ...
Gamla, Gilabon Waterfall
Yesterday I arrived on the bus in Tzfat. When I got to the Livnot Campus we had a small welcome circle thing and orientation. We had dinner then a tour of the city and got Ice cream. I went to bed. Today we got up and had breakfast at 7AM. Left for Gamla ...
Israel Day 9
... which is just a bombed out shell now. Had a great time and got extremely sandy and dirty. On the way back we stopped for dinner in Rosh Pinna. Tomorrow we will explore the old city of Safed and the artist quarters before Shabbat. ...
Swishy swishy swishy swishy!
... of צפת (Safed / Tzefat / omg it should just be spelled in Hebrew only). It is one of the four holy cities in Israel (along with Tiberias, Jerusalem, and Hebron), and so of course that was our next stop. That's where we got our first shawarma of ...
Tzefat and Tel Aviv
... because we are headed home right after Shabbat. Yesterday we travelled to Tzefat. We visited this important mystical, spiritual center of Israel and saw the famous synagogues of Rabbi Yosef Caro and Rabbi Isaac Luria. Caro was the author of the Shulchan ...
Israel Day 11
... gut wrenching as you read what some of the people went through especially those that survived the Holocaust and then fought for Israel's Independence. We then followed tried to visit Nimrod's Fortress and the Banias but got here too late. Our plan ...
Kaballah pendants
Monday, May 10th After our first night in Ginosar and another Kibbutz buffet breakfast, we took off for Tzafd (this town has at least 15 different spellings- I tried to use the one that phonetically would sound the closest to the pronunciation.) We ...
Tzfat - the mystic city
... a little square near the art shuk and had lunch. Dan got some pomegranate juice, which he had wanted the whole time we were in Israel. And I got some shwarma, ditto! (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawarma). It was so good!!! The meat was cooked on a ...
Welcome back, Desert hike prep
After we all made it back to the Livnot campus, we putzed around and slowely prepared for our crazy desert hike. We packed up all the sleeping bags and food and water and bags and got them ready to load onto the truck in the morning. We had some sort of ...
Day tour of Safed
... level of understanding, bringing them closer to the divine and to the hidden secrets of the universe. A visit to the town of Safed (Tsfat), where the study of Kabala and its powers attained its highest form, is a fascinating journey into the secrets of ...
Tzipori, Caves, Visit to Levav's house
Today we met Michael and he guided us through the ruins of Tzipori. Then we drove to a new location where Michael showed us a cave from the Bar Kokhba revolution that he discovered 25 years ago. After we left Michael, we went to visit the home of Levav, ...
Israel Day 12
... is Jean Yves Mastey. Jean Yves was a very sucessful clothing designer before he felt the Zionist desire to move to Israel. He found Safed and bought the ruins of a Turkish Palace which is now the Palacio. Quite an interesting story and ...
4th of July in Israel
... nbsp; The IDF soldiers at our table didn't speak much English. The next morning we rode to Tzfat which is one of Israel's four Holy Cities and the center for Kabbalah (Jewish Mysticism). We visited the Rabbi Yossef Caro Synagogue and the Kabbalah visitor ...
Haifa, Golan Heights, Tiberias
... and Marco Polo (who sailed on his journey to the Orient from Acre), visited this ancient seaport city. Today, it is one of Israel’s three World Heritage Sites. Named for an ancient Hebrew word meaning "hot sand," the city of Acre is spelled with ...
Looking around before Shabbas
Today we walked around Tzfat before the big family dinner at the ...
Weekend trip to Tzfat
Friday morning, we boarded 2 buses and left for Tiberius. Here we rode donkeys and went to the hot springs called Chamat Tverya that evening. We stayed at the Kinar Hotel. Friday morning we had a learning session with the mentors. We hiked ...
Israel Day 10
Today is Friday thus, everything closes for Shabbat early. We are staying in Safed which is populated mostly by Chassidic Jews thus the entire City closes down for Shabbat. We walked through the artist area which was nice but the price of the ...
Community Service, Shabbat class
More community service in the morning. This might be the day we went to get falafel for lunch. We had a class, then visited Avraham I think. Or the class was Avraham. Then a class about Shabbat. Then Shabbat prep. I'm just reading all this from the ...
Megila reading, Museums, Night Hike
On the 19th of July, we did more community service, and then something called the "Good Eye Activity" according to the calendar, but I have no idea what that was. We had dinner together. It was probably pretty good. Then we went to the Saraya, which is ...
Bus to Tzfat
I spent the night at the Turpaz's house which was very nice. They brought be to the bus stop where I got on the 980 bus towards Tzfat. Thats where I am now. Trip 1 is officially over and now I will start a blog for the second trip: Livot. ...
Community Service, Hexagon Pools
Today we started off the day with community service. Oh, I got up early with Erika and we made breakfast. It was the boiled egg in the tomatoe sauce thing. Forgot the name. They would always have it at the hotel in the morning, but I never tried it. I ...
ATVing and winery
Today was the last day of the Mentor Mission program. We took it easy in the morning and had a late breakfast. We were going to have a quick learning session with the mentors, but because no one could muster the energy to assemble ...
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