Recently a new structure appeared on the stairs leading down from the Old City to Meor Chaim. It's a new Beit Midrash (house of study). The sign says that on the premises there is Torah learning, an institute for (learning for) bar mitzvah and chazanut (cantorial duties), "shirat habakashot", which I would loosely translate at poetry of supplication, and various study groups of Jewish heritage.
Looking up a bit, you see this open door structure that is labeled "Across from Rashbi Beit Midrash Kol Rina V'yishua". The voice of joy and redemption. It sits a top a hill overlooking the cemetary towards Meron, thus the allusion to Rashbi.
Ah, such a view from the Beit Midrash!
But what's that in the right hand corner of the picture? Garbage?
Alas, as with many construction projects in Tsfat, this one has yet to clean up the resulting pile of rubble, refuse, and general dirt that resulted from the building.
Hopefully they will, so that it looks as lovely from the outside as I'm sure it does to look out from the inside.
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