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103 subjective component of my experience in Safed, something objective was happening there which had to do with the ultimate truth, common to us all as human beings, no matter the place, culture or religion we belong to . Therefore, the use I make of the pattern language imprinted in my mind subconsciously ( during my childhood in Safed in ) the buildings I design, does not stem from some nostalgia or my intimate personal love for the place, but rather derives from the explanation given to me by the scientific world, the way that will be demonstrated further on in this book . The mystic doctrine of the Kabala which includes various interpretations as to the nature of divinity and the work of creation, mysticism, reincarnation and the likes - has undoubtedly influenced the city of Safed's unique physical structure . For example, the sky - blue color, one of the colors of the "Zohar", which according to the Kabala connects us to the heavenly, purifies us and gives us a spiritual experience . This is the color my grandmother used to whitewash the walls of the alley at the entrance to her hotel . This is also the color seen on the houses in Safed and on the graves of the righteous . The city of Safed, dated to the period of the second temple and haven to thousands of Jews who fled from Spain and Portugal in . 16 fear of the Inquisition, became in the 16 th century the most important spiritual center of the Jewish community of Eretz Israel . Many of the Jews who settled there were prominent mysticists and scholars of religious law and Kabala, including Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, who is thought to be the author of the Zohar, one of the most important Kabalistic texts, and Rabbi Joseph Karo, author of Shulchan Aruch ) code of laws ( .
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פורטוגלי, נילי
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