During our first month in Tzfat we were invited for every Shabbos meal by many different people we met in study groups, shuls and on the street. But now, after a month and a half, we are no longer “new” and the past week we were looking forward to a quiet private Friday night meal by ourselves in our small home. It did not happen. While we went out shopping last Friday morning, we met Anna – a Russian woman who is in Eber’s Ulpan class. We started talking and asked nonchalantly what she was doing Friday night. Turned out she was doing nothing. We asked if she would like to go to a shul with us, and join us for Shabbat dinner, and she eagerly agreed! She came with Tamara, another Russian woman from Eber’s Ulpan. Both women came to Tzfat half a year ago from the Russian city of Kazan. Anna was a teacher of math and physics, and Tamara was a farmacist. They told us a shoking fact – they have never been to a shul in their entire life – and they are our age! That, despite spending last six months in Tzfat where there are several shuls on every corner! The first shul they have ever been to – was Breslov shul, with us, this past Friday night – 500 people full of excitement of greeting Shabbos, singing, dancing, screeming in prayer… Amazingly to me, both women promptly got into action, swaying, dancing, mediating with closed eyes to the powerful nigguns sung by hundreds of voices and were visibly moved by the prayer service. After the shul service was over, they came to us for Friday night dinner which also was the first Shabbos dinner in their life. During the meal, Anna and Tamara got answers to some puzzling mysteries, like why men are wearing the hanging strings (Tzitzit), and why synagogue sitting is separate for men and women. But we found something in common as well: Tamara told us she chose Tzfat because she was a dreamer – and our reply was : “We are too!”