![]() ![]() ![]() Though in the two decades prior to Kaplan’s arrival it began to see some immigration of Chassidic and other Jews, and the establishment of an artists’ colony, Safed for centuries had been a majority Arab city, and at the time of State of Israel’s War of Independence in 1948 had a population of 12,000 Arabs and only 1,700 Jews living in the city’s Jewish quarter. ![]() The Kaplans’ arrival marked a turning point in Safed’s Jewish rebirth. ![]() Their charge was to restore the historic city in northern Israel to its former glory, fortify Judaism in the region, and provide the area protection through spiritual means from enduring threats from the north. Schneerson, of righteous memory-to Safed. Married only two years and, unbeknownst to them, with the Yom Kippur War looming, Rabbi Aryeh Leib Kaplan, 25 at the time, and his wife, Sarah, along with their infant son, Menachem Mendel, were dispatched by the Rebbe-Rabbi Menachem M. But there are some who take on missions of heroic proportion, such as one assigned to a young Crown Heights couple in the summer of 1973. In Chabad circles, there are no small assignments for the movement’s emissaries, sent near and far to bolster and spread Judaism, often in isolated outposts. ![]()
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