When we lived in Maine, we had difficulty finding a minyan, and now in Tsfat, we have a different difficulty deciding which minyan to go to.Within 10 minutes walk, there are at least 50 minyanim to choose from! Eber’s preference currently for morning prayer is Synagogue of Sanz Chasidim, which has many minyanim for morning, afternoon and evening prayer. He goes to 7 am minyan and likes the fact that it is small (15 to 30 men every day), clean, new, and people pray with passion. He made new friends there – all interesting unusual characters, and just from that community we already have invitations for quite a few of the coming Shabboses.
We are also enjoying learning opportunities we found so far. Together we go to the Hebrew Ulpan Mondays and Wednesday, from 8:30 am to 1 pm.  The best part for us is not the Hebrew, which is way bellow our level, but the people. Some of the students are in Israel for several years, and some just arrived, like us. After two weeks of the course, we have not learned much new Hebrew, but made many new friends, all very different from each other, each with interesting personal story. 
In one of my previous emails, I mentioned that on our first week in Tsfat, while eating at a restaurant, we made an acquaintance of a Rabbi and Rebetzen who run one of the local yeshivot. This resulted in Eber being introduced to another Rabbi whose study partner just left, and Eber became his new Gemarrah study partner two times a week, at 11 AM. His teacher is about same age as Eber, and has incredible knowledge of Talmud and history of all the Rabbonim who wrote the Talmud. Eber wanted to make a good impression and prepared for the first class. But as soon as he told the teacher that he prepared the page he assigned with the help of an outside source – the teacher said ” OK, we are not learning this page, we’ll learn a different page”, and instructed Eber not to use English language sources at all. Eber also has some common interests with his teacher, as they both are history buffs. 
We also found a very interesting Rabbi – Alon Anava, who made Alyah two years ago and already established a new shul and Beit Medrash in Tsfat. He has a learning program for women, that has been running for 2 years now, and to which I have been coming recently three days a week in the morning. There are three sessions, different on each day, but always using original sources in Hebrew, and interesting analysis of these sources, on various subjects. Rabbi Anava started men’s learning program just recently, few months ago, and teaches men’s class early morning, and then another class after mincha, and Eber not only attends early morning class, rushing there from his regular Sanz minyan three days of week that he does not have Ulpan, but also  prays Mincha there every week day as well in order to attend the Halacha class following Mincha. At 6 pm, we both return to Rabbi Anava shul to attend Zohar class for both men and women.  The original Aramaic text of the Zohar is used, and the teacher reads, translates and explains the text. I have been following the Zohar text loaded on my cell phone using the app “Sefaria”.
Besides Rabbi Anava new enterprise, there is Breslov  “Baalei Batim” daily Daf Yomi class that meets on Shabbos after Shacharit, and on other days at 8 pm, all in Hebrew, very lively and boisterous. Eber attended it a few times on Shabbos, and really enjoyed it, and wants to try too attend daily as well.
For me there is also a women learning group called “Bas Medrash” on Monday mornings and Wednesday afternoons, hosted by Judy, who opens her apartment/pottery studio for women’s learning two days a week. Many English speakers come to this group, and there is an atmosphere of camaraderie, passion for learning, always excellent speakers, good food, mutual support, laughter, and opportunity to join one of several groups that learn together accordingly to their interests and level of Hebrew  knowledge. I joined a group that learns Mikraot Gdolot focusing on Torah text and various commentaries’ language and meaning. I like that women’s group so much, that I play hockey from the morning part of my Monday Ulpan. On Wednesdays afternoon the women’s group also has an excellent Hebrew class, taught by Susan, originally from Newton, MA  who made Alyah to Tzfat 16 years ago.While rushing from our home to the next class, we stop for a minute to take a picture of a stunning scenery….