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Announcing a new American organization to support Israel.
As our hearts are heavy this Lag B’Omer over the Mt. Meron tragedy, we know that the mystical rabbis of Spain were expelled around 1492, and settled in Zfat the neighboring mountaintop to Meron.
Our mystical tradition was developed in Israel’s remote North, to try and answer the unanswerable tragedies that continue to befall our People.