Tzfat, the Galilee, and Jerusalem

Your name, carried to the holy places.

Rav Weinreb lives in Tzfat, an hour from most of these places and a short journey from the rest. When a family asks, he goes, and he takes the name with him.

Where he goes

The places, and what people ask for at each.

Jerusalem

The Kotel

The last wall of the Beis HaMikdash, where prayer has never stopped. Three hours each way from Tzfat. Many families ask for forty consecutive days, the traditional length for a matter that needs a yeshuah.

Asked for most: a refuah sheleimah, a shidduch, parnassah, children.

From $180 for a day, or $1,000 for the full forty days

An illustration of the tomb complex at Meron

Meron · 30 minutes

Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai

The kever of Rashbi, author of the Zohar. On Lag BaOmer the whole Jewish world turns toward this hillside.

Asked for most: children, and matters that feel beyond natural help.

From $54

An illustration of the tomb at Amuka in the Galilee

Amuka · 20 minutes

Rabbi Yonatan ben Uziel

The place Jews have come to for centuries to daven for a shidduch, in a wooded valley outside Tzfat.

Asked for most: a zivug, for oneself or for a child.

From $54

An illustration of the tomb of Rabbi Meir Baal HaNes at Tiberias

Teveria · 40 minutes

Rabbi Meir Baal HaNes, the Rambam, and the Ramchal

On and above the shore of the Kinneret. Rabbi Meir, the master of the miracle, where people come when something is lost. The Rambam, who was a doctor as well as a posek. And the Ramchal, who wrote Mesillas Yesharim.

Asked for most: health, things and people who need to be found, direction in life.

From $72

An illustration of the old cemetery of Tzfat

Tzfat · his own city

The Arizal, and the tzaddikim of Tzfat

Rav Yitzchak Luria, and the great ones buried on the hillside of the old cemetery, among them Rav Yosef Karo who wrote the Shulchan Aruch. Rav Weinreb lives here.

Asked for most: clarity, teshuvah, success in learning.

From $36

On the road to Beis Lechem

Rachel Imeinu

The mother who weeps for her children and is answered. The eleventh of Cheshvan is her yahrzeit and the most visited day of the year there.

Asked for most: children, and motherhood.

From $180

How this works, and where the money goes

Rav Weinreb travels to these places himself. The amounts cover the journey and go toward the learning program, so what you give does two things at once: your name is carried to the place, and a man learning at Ohel Gershon is supported by it.

Because you receive something in return, these amounts should not be treated as an ordinary charitable gift. If you want a gift that is tax deductible in the United States, give to the learning program itself through the yeshiva, which is a separate thing and is explained here. Ask your own accountant where it matters to you.

If the amount is difficult, say so. Nobody has ever been turned away, and nobody will be.

The pictures on this page are illustrations, not photographs. Nothing is promised except that Rav Weinreb will go, that he will daven, and that you will be told when he has been.

Send a name

Ask Rav Weinreb to take a name with him.

Hebrew name and mother's name if you have them. If not, whatever you know is enough.