About Eizer L'Shabbos

One of the holiest places in Eretz Yisroel is the ancient city of Tzefat. Every year, tens of thousands of Jews visit the city’s old Beis Hachayim to pray near the graves of the Ari Zal, Rabbi Moshe Cordovero, Rabbi Shlomo Alkabetz, Rabbi Yosef Karo, author of the Shulchan Aruch, and more recent Tzaddikim, such as Rabbi Chaim of Chernowitz, author of Be’er Mayim Chaim, among many others. However, Tzefat endured many years of hardship and indignity. By the early twentieth century, hardly a trace remained of her former glory.