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| DATE | 2025-09-25 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] Tzfat
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Just as a follow up to this I wanted to report on some of the conditions
I am seeing.
First of all, every young person is now in Uniform, which is different
than last year. A young man who was serving me Falafals last year is
now serving the Army in Hebron. A family I had dinner with on Rosh
Hashona has a son who is being drafted and is headed for Syria in a few
days. Another family has one son in Gaza and another in the West Bank.
I was greeted at Ben Gurion Airport with a Missle alarm as I was headed
to the Passport control. We had another at Aviva's house the next day.
Meanwhile, many businesses have opened with varying degrees of success.
There is a labor shortage with so many people in uniform and while
crowds are up, they are not at Pre-Oct 7th levels. I saw some soldiers
in Tzfat tonight, and they had ripped uniforms, like they came in off
the field and went to Tzfat to do Slichos and work with some HS
children. The country has almost normalized the war and the violence.
I've seen several Bar Mitzots and weddings in the community, and
soldiers come in out of the field to celebrate.
More than a few of the regular Tzfat indiviudals who might have mental
illness and have managed to string their lives together are no missing.
I don't yet know what happened to them or where they are. I know some
of the inn owners and they have not yet good business, but they have had
some business, enough to tread water.
Several friends have left Tzfat. These are lifers and they have reasons
for leaving, but the underlining problem is the stress... I am sure of
it.
In the north it is quiet and I hear no artiliary from Lebanon or planes
or missles. So that is good. Money problems are deep though. I've
stiched together a few family dinners for people, quietly, without them
knowing it and there is housing problems with people squeezzed into
smaller apartments than they might normally consider... and there is a
rash of mental illness, which is mostly managable, but another hurdle.
The food bank for Tzfat is
https://www.matara.pro/nedarimplus/online/?S=dFBO
mt0527698697-at-gmail.com
Rav Moshe Burnstein
On the positive note: Aviva and the Boys met me at the Airport to a
great suprise! I was very very happy. They are growing big and strong.
Akiva talks a storm. And Yedidyah and Danial are dreams to be with.
They have regular school again and Akiva is in Gans. We played a lot of
Crossfire, and saw videos on Mammals and had a terrific Shabbat. They
went to Thailand for the Holiday. Aviva is looking well and a huge
Tzadikes. She made 6 cattering size dinners and fresh baked Challahs
for soldiers and does this every week. She works really hard to do
this aside from her regular motherly duties. There is much to be proud
of and she is living a good full measure of life.
Reuvain
On Sun, Sep 07, 2025 at 01:13:11AM -0400, Ruben Safir wrote:
> http://www.mrbrklyn.com/amsterdam.html#Rijks
>
> I will be making a trip soon to see the family in G'vat Shmuel and to be
> in Tzfat. The war is still raging, so I expect to run into a country
> that is raw and with many open emotion wounds, and a lot of poverty.
>
> I will be stopping on my way in to Amsterdam. I find a direct flight
> more than I can handle so I stop in Europe and that usually means
> Amsterdam. NOt for the Borthels and the drugs, but for the Jewish
> history and the Art.
>
> The Dutch Museums and heritage is quite astonishing, and its Jewish
> footprint is enormous.
>
> http://www.mrbrklyn.com/amsterdam.html#Rijks
>
> Have a look at previous trips.
>
> I tend to give Tzadakah when I get to Tzfat. It is in the north and
> was on the front line with Hezbullah. The economy, which is barely held
> up by foreign tourism and art prodcution, has been battered. I expect
> demands to be more than the usual. On Simchas Torah/Shemini Eztzerts,
> we have a community Kiddush and we've provided for a succah. A decent
> chunk of the inheritence has been invested in this: See
>
> http://www.mrbrklyn.com/tzfat.html
> http://images.mrbrklyn.com/2023_israel_amst_purim/
> http://images.mrbrklyn.com/2022_israel/
> http://images.mrbrklyn.com/2022_israel/IMG_1231.JPG?width=1024
>
> This is my spiritual center when in Tzfat... the Kosov Synagaguge in the
> old city
>
> http://www.mrbrklyn.com/kosov.html
> http://www.mrbrklyn.com/images/2022_israel/MVI_1199.MP4
> http://www.mrbrklyn.com/images/2022_israel/MVI_1200.MP4
> http://www.mrbrklyn.com/images/2022_israel/kikar2.png
>
> I have so much raw material from these trips they are hard to keep up
> with.
>
> https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=mrbrklyn+Tzfat
> some videos on youtube..
>
> My mothers Yitziet in on September 11th this year (18 Elul)
> Itka's birthday is on the Nineth - Happy Birthday Itka!!!
>
> If anyone wants to donate funds for the recovery and to feed the people
> in Tzfat in memory of my Mother, Sherry Iris Israeloff email Rabbi Moshe
> Tuvia mt0527698697-at-gmail.com
>
> His online link for Tzdakah is here ==>
> https://www.matara.pro/nedarimplus/online/?S=dFBO
>
> If you want to put money in my hands to give in Tzfat, contact me. I've
> put my hard earned cash into these peoples hands, as cases are needed,
> and help to build resources. A simple thing like replacing the community
> refigerator has been very helpful to folks, or hiring help to build a
> succah for people that are ill from cancer, or helping a women who is a
> difficult marriage scrap by for Shabbat meals...
>
> I don't list these things to show that I am in any way remarkeble, I am
> certainly not, but just to encourage people to give, if posible, direct
> charity, hand to hand in Tzfat and much of the rest of Israel.
>
> We have come out of the Covid crisis and the world seems quite crazy.
> It is, and nowhere more so than in Israel. We are suffering with
> inflation and an uncertain economic, not to mention political, future.
> We should try to stick together, like an extended family.
>
> Reuvain
>
>
>
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