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Audio | 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.

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