1500-1600: Mysticism in Safed

 

Lurianic KabalahThe Jewish community of Safed grew exponentially in the 16th century. Rabbi Yosef Caro, author of the Shulchan Aruch, a codification of Jewish law, was a resident of the city. Mystic scholar Rabbi Shlomo Alkabets wrote the famous Lecha Dodi song in Safed in 1524. Rabbi Moshe Kordovo developed Jewish mysticism into a new system called Kabalah and Rabbi Isaac Luria expanded it and founded a mystical movement called Lurianic Kabalah, which is still practiced today.

  1. 16th Century Distribution of Jewish Population in Israel
  2. 1500 Jews Visit Temple Mount
  3. 1507 The Jews of Jerusalem
  4. 1516 Jews Restricted from Temple Mount
  5. 1517 Islamic Murder, Mayhem, and Mutilation
  6. 1517 Safed
  7. 1518 The Jews of Jerusalem
  8. 1518 Safed
  9. 1519 The Jews of Jerusalem
  10. 1520 Jerusalem
  11. 1521 Safed
  12. 1521 The Temple Mount
  13. 1522 Islamic Murder, Mayhem, and Mutilation
  14. 1523 Martin Luther
  15. 1524 Schulchan Aruch
  16. 1529 The Jews of Jerusalem
  17. 1532 The Jews of Jerusalem
  18. 1533 The Jews of Jerusalem
  19. 1535 The Jews of Jerusalem
  20. 1535 Lecha Dodi Composed in Safed
  21. 1541 The Leader of Jerusalem Passes Away
  22. 1542 The Jews of Jerusalem
  23. 1542 Jewish Mysticism in Safed
  24. 1543 Martin Luther
  25. 1546 The Jews of Jerusalem
  26. 1548 Rabbi Kalman Kalonymas
  27. 1549 The Jews of Jerusalem
  28. 1553 The Jews of Jerusalem
  29. 1556 The Jews of Jerusalem
  30. 1563 The Jews of Jerusalem
  31. 1564 Don Yosef Nasi
  32. 1565 The Jews of Jerusalem
  33. 1569 The Jews of Jerusalem
  34. 1570 Grave of Samuel, Shavuot
  35. 1575 Safed-Jerusalem
  36. 1575 The Jews of Jerusalem
  37. 1577 The First Printing Press in the Middle East- Safed
  38. 1577 Forced Sabbath Desecration- Safed
  39. 1579 The Jews of Jerusalem
  40. 1579 Ottoman Sultan Murad III
  41. 1581 The Jews of Jerusalem
  42. 1583 The Jews of Jerusalem
  43. 1586 Synagogues in Jerusalem
  44. 1586 The Jews of Jerusalem
  45. 1587 The Jews of Jerusalem
  46. 1588 The Jews of Jerusalem
  47. 1588 Rabbi Besalel Ashkenazi moves to Jerusalem from Egypt
  48. 1590 The Temple Mount
  49. 1591 Jerusalem
  50. 1596 The Jews of Jerusalem
  51. 1598 The Jews of Jerusalem

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