Journey to Tzefas: The Minchas Elazar's Historic Visit to the Ancient Cemetery in Tzefat

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Daniel Glatstein’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

when he came to Eretz Yisrael I believe in the year 1930 when he came to visit uh Reb Elyashiv Alfandari. Actually, we are Reb Alfandari is buried in Har Hazeisim. Uh it was one of the Kvarim that we didn't get a chance to uh to visit. But we uh the other the other week we learned about the Minchas Elazar's travels to Har Hazeisim. Today I want to read to you about when the Minchas Elazar traveled to Tzfas, Eretz Kodesh. So, Hashgacha Hadera that I flipped around the Shiurim today. I want to welcome my host, Reb Shaul uh Shaul Yisrael Orbach, who hosted me this past week in Eretz Yisrael, and who took us to Tzfas this past Thursday uh we woke up 4:30 in the morning and uh we got to Tiveria like in record time, I think in hour 45 minutes. Wow. Yeah, right? I don't know if we should say that publicly because that might mean that we were driving a bit quick. But actually uh the Baal Shem Tov has certain Shemois that get you there quicker, so it doesn't necessarily mean that we sped. Kfitzas Haderech. But basically we got there 7:00 and we have a good friend in Tiveria, Reb Binyamin Kemper. He organized a Minyan for us and breakfast for us. And from there we went to various Kvarim. We went to the Kever of Rebbi Akiva and the Ramchal. I believe we went there first. We went to the cemetery in Tiberias where the Tamide Baal Shem are buried, including a

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2. 3:39Ramak, and Rabbi Alkabetz, Rabbi Yosef Caro, and the Tanna Rabbi Pinchas ben Yair. Okay, so…
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