Fantastical Fiction
Quirky stories about people who experience strange things in strange places.
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Wild Figs (opens the original)
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I once lived in Tsfat, Safed in English, the ancient mystical Galilee town crossed with cobbled streets and medieval-looking stone houses. It bears the weight of modern buildings patiently. It’s seen centuries of conquerers come and go. But always Jews come back to live in Tsfat. At the town’s foot a cemetery hosts the graves of kabbalists, rabbis, simple Jews, and some of my own friends. Close by there’s a cave where an icy stream runs; it fills a natural mikvah. The great kabbalistic rabbi Yit
Blue Monday (opens the original)
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