Place · Land of Israel / Judea
Safed
An economic, rabbinic, and Kabbalistic center in Ottoman Galilee.
32.9658°N 35.4983°E · representative coordinate · Wikidata Q188336 ↗
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Safed became a new center of Jewish learning in Ottoman Galilee.
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By the late 1560s Safed may have held 1,800 Jewish households.
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Isaac Luria lived in Safed for under three years before dying at thirty-eight.
Community: Jews of Safed, an economic, legal, and mystical community.
By the late 1560s Safed may have held 1,800 Jewish households. Tikkun would free divine sparks trapped in matter and restore divine unity.