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Day 3- Today we drove to Zfat, in the Galilee. Zfat is one of the holiest cities in Judaism, after Jerusalem and Hebron. It is a beautiful little town on the top of a mountain, and is home to the Jewish mystics of Kabbalah. It also happens to be my most favorite place in all of Israel. You can just feel these special, spiritual, mystical powers flowing all around you. As a very religious city, where Kabbalah was developed in the 16th century, there are dozens of small synagogues, mostly after specific rabbis. We went to a few of the more important ones. First was the Abuhav Synagogue, named for Rabbi Yitzhak Abuhav, a famous rabbi from Spain who lived in the 15th century.

Part 2- Go Galilee, its near the Sea

Leah Schneier
2007-04-21 21:43:36

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He was given one wish by his new friend, the Emperor, to build a yeshiva, and that his where his body now lies, in Tiberias. Tiberias is also one of the holiest cities in Judaism, after Zfat I think. It's a great little city because it has both the tourist aspect, since it is on the Lake Kinneret, but has the religious aspect as well. I spent some time there last summer and I really liked it.

Well, after this, we had lunch and got back on the bus and headed home, to move out of our apartment, and for some, to fly back home. It was really sad to say goodbye to my friends who went home, although I'm sure I'll see them again. The whole 6 months was such a great experience, with an amazing group of people. I know everyone always says that, but we really had a special group. It was small, and intimate, and we got to know each other really well. I am really going to miss these people. Luckily, many have also decided to stay in Israel, or are planning on returning, so I think that they will be in my life for many years to come, and that makes me happy.

This final trip up north was really a great culmination for us, and was important especially for me. The majority of things and places we saw, were news sights to all of, which for our group is a great feat, since most of us have been to Israel several times, and been on group tours many times, which tend to take you to the same places every time. So this was a special trip because we got to see a lot of Israel that we had never seen before. The North is really beautiful, and so different from the rest of the country. I think it also re-inspired view of the Galilee, and Sea of Galilee (Lake Kinneret) all of us, in loving Israel. For me in particular, I had been wanting to come to the north since I arrived in Israel 8 months ago, and had planned on spending a lot of time there. But, because of the war with Lebanon, which took place all in the north, I was not able to go, and I just hadn't had the chance to go until now. I was so happy to finally get to the north, and have such a great trip there. My time had finally come full circle, to where it was supposed to have started. Israel is such a tiny country, but it has such dramatic differences, and really almost any kind of physical thing in nature you can thing of, from north to south, and east to west. This was by far my best "trip" in Israel.

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