On Sunday we went to Tzfat.
Tzfat is the home of the Kabala.
First of all we went round looking at the different Jewish aspects. Why they wright
nah
nach
nachma
nachman
On all of the walls.
We then saw some art work which was a picture made up by the words of the magila, or Torah and so on.
We then were aloud to go shopping in the market place. To begin with I was just bargaining for the sake of bargaining but then I managed to bargain on a jumper of the Israeli defense force lower than anyone else in my group. I saved 30 shekels and so I bought that. I also bargained down on a few other things.
Finally we had a talk from a man called David Freedman. He is an artist that also studies kabala.
He normally draws to teach Kabala.
The letter aleph and the root words are one of his main ideas.
It was very interesting and his art work was very good.
This tour today wasn't like any of the other hikes because there wasn't much walking.
2 comments:
So why do they write na, nach, nachamu?
Pleased to see that all the bargaining training has paid off!
Tries to ring you tonight before you went on your tiyul, but engaged constantly. Hope you enjoy the tiyul
Love
Dad
A few years ago someone found a really old siddur or humash or other holy book (I think it was in Tivaria), and in the margin of one of the pages was scribbled: Na, Nach, Nachma, Nachman, Me'uman. They took this to be a message directly from Rabbi Nachman from Uman - the Bretslava Rebbe. Since then the quote has appeared on posters, grafitti, etc... all over Israel as some sort of spiritual proof of something. At the very least, Rabbi Nachman has become extremely popular with the haredim and now pilgrimages to Uman are big events (and big business).
I'll repeat what I said about bargaining when you went to Thailand. It's only a bargain if you were going to buy it anyway. Otherwise it's just spending less money on something you didn't really want.
Keep having fun, lots of love and minestrone soup,
Rachel
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