The Golden Age of Tzfat: The Jews in Exile
After the Spanish expulsion, many prominent rabbis found their way to the city of Tzfat (Safed) in northern Israel. Among them were the Kabbalist Rabbi Isaac Luria; Rabbi Joseph Caro, the author of the Shulchan Aruch; and Rabbi Shlomo Halevi Alkabetz, composer of the Sabbath hymn “Lecha Dodi.”
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| Topics: | History, Alshich, R. Moshe, R. Chaim ibn Attar (Ohr HaChaim), Safed, R. Isaac Luria, Caro, R. Joseph, Jewish History |
Rabbi Mendel Dubov is the director of Chabad in Sussex County, NJ, and a member of faculty at the Rabbinical College of America in Morristown, NJ.
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