The Safed Circle I: R. Yosef Karo and R. Yaakov Beirav

🧿 In the hillside town of Tzfat (Safed) in the Ottoman-ruled Land of Israel, victims of expulsions from Europe found space for Kabbalistic creativity and even the reinstatement of formal ordination.

The Jewish Quarter in Safed in the late Ottoman period, 1890 [Source]

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In this issue:

• The Growth of the Tzfat Jewish Community

• R. Yosef Karo’s Mystical Activities

• The Semicha Controversy with R. Yaakov Beirav