A sister location to ShivteYah Farm in Bat Shlomo.Tzfat · Galilee · Israel
Aerial view of the holy city of Tzfat perched on a Galilean mountaintop at golden hour
Tzfat · City of Air, Kabbalah & Refuge

Where Torah meets
true healing.

In the mountain air of Tzfat — the only holy city of refuge — we're opening the world's first Torah-based center for holistic health and healing. Cutting-edge science, the leading natural-medicine modalities, and the timeless wisdom of Torah, together in one sanctuary.Welcome to true healing and wellness.

1st
Torah-based health & healing center
Tzfat
Holy city of refuge
100s
Local healers ready to serve
Global
Online course access
The setting

The mountains of Tzfat

The holy city sits 900 meters above the Galilee — wrapped in pure mountain air, blue-painted alleyways, ancient stone, and views that stretch to Mount Meron and the Sea of Galilee.

The Galilee mountains around Tzfat at dawn, with Mount Meron in the distance and mist drifting through terraced valleys
Upper Galilee — Mount Meron at dawn, the mountains that surround the city.
Iconic blue-painted alleyway in the Old City of Tzfat with lanterns and ancient wooden doors
The blue alleys of the Kabbalistic Quarter.
Historic Jerusalem-stone building in Tzfat with arched windows, wooden shutters and an olive-tree courtyard
Jerusalem-stone architecture, near the former Bible Museum site.
Sweeping view from a Tzfat hillside overlooking the Sea of Galilee with the Golan Heights rising beyond, wildflowers and cypress trees in the foreground
Looking east from Tzfat — the Sea of Galilee and the Golan Heights.
A hiking trail winding through olive groves and wildflowers in the Galilee mountains near Tzfat, with a white-stone village on the far ridge
Healing trails through olive groves and wildflowers.
Where practitioners work

Indoor & outdoor spaces

Treatment suites, teaching halls, an apothecary, a meditation room, and mountain-air courtyards — designed so every modality has the right space, indoors and out.

Healing treatment roomsIndoor

Healing treatment rooms

Private suites with Jerusalem-stone walls and arched-window daylight for bodywork, acupuncture, and 1:1 sessions.

Herbal apothecary & consult roomIndoor

Herbal apothecary & consult room

A working apothecary lined with Galilee herbs — where herbalists and naturopaths meet clients face-to-face.

Classroom & study hallIndoor

Classroom & study hall

A vaulted teaching hall with mountain views for courses, lectures, and Torah-rooted health curricula.

Meditation & prayer roomIndoor

Meditation & prayer room

A quiet vaulted room for guided meditation, breathwork, and tefillah between treatments.

Olive courtyard & herb gardenOutdoor

Olive courtyard & herb garden

A shaded stone courtyard with raised herb beds — used for grounding sessions, garden classes, and rest.

Mountain-view movement terraceOutdoor

Mountain-view movement terrace

An open-air terrace overlooking the Galilee for yoga, qigong, and morning movement at golden hour.

Mission

True healing — body, soul, and community

Our mission is to keep people healthy and happy by educating and teaching Torah alongside health and wellness methods. Combining cutting-edge science and holistic therapies with the wisdom of Torah, we bring our clients to complete healing and health.

Good health is essential to fulfill all the mitzvot of the Torah. When the people are healthy, they can fully serve their Creator and reach their highest potential. Many seekers of holistic health don't yet see its Torah roots — and many in Torah lack access to healthy living. The center bridges both.

City of Air & Kabbalah

Tzfat is renowned for its pure mountain air and pristine northern vistas. Air is the most essential element of healing — and Tzfat has it in abundance.

The only holy City of Refuge

Tzfat is biblically a place where people come for Torah, healing, and rehabilitation — surrounded by hiking trails, natural spring mikvahs, and the sacred geography of the Galilee.

Torah at the Center

The world's first Torah-based health and healing center — rooting every modality in timeless wisdom.

The Center

What's inside

The latest holistic methods and modalities, rooted in Torah — taught and practiced in a single sanctuary, and shared with the world online.

Healing Rooms

Treatment suites for resident and visiting natural-medicine practitioners across the leading holistic modalities.

Classes & Courses

A teaching campus pairing health & wellness curricula with Torah learning — for residents and visitors alike.

Worldwide Online Access

Classes and courses streamed globally so the Torah-health curriculum reaches students far beyond Tzfat.

Conference Center

A venue for state-wide and international natural-health conferences, hosting Israel's top experts.

Snow-dusted Mount Meron rising above the green terraced hills of the Galilee at sunrise
The mountains around us

Mount Meron, the Galilee ridges, and the air that heals.

Tzfat sits 900 meters above the sea, ringed by the highest peaks of the Galilee. The air, the views, and the quiet are part of the medicine.

Location

Former Israel Bible Museum, Tzfat

The historic Ottoman-era Jerusalem-stone building of the former Israel Bible Museum in the Old City of Tzfat, with arched windows and a wooden door
The former Israel Bible Museum — our future home in the Old City of Tzfat.

The center will be housed in the former location of the Israel Bible Museum — a natural, secluded setting that is also walkable from the old city and accessible to residents and visiting tourists. The building's history as a home for Torah and the arts makes it a fitting sanctuary for Torah-rooted healing.

Tzfat itself is the world's quiet capital of natural healing — the city of air, the holy city of refuge, and a place biblically associated with Torah learning, healing, and rehabilitation.

Why now

Impact for Tzfat — and for Israel

Jobs for Tzfat

Hundreds of holistic and natural healers in Tzfat are underemployed. The center activates them as resident practitioners and educators.

A school for natural medicine

Training the next generation of natural-health professionals — positioning Tzfat as Israel's top school in the field.

City identity

Tzfat is already a city of Music, Art, Torah — and refuge. The center makes its identity as a city of Natural Health unmistakable.

Health tourism

One of the fastest-growing tourism sectors worldwide. Tzfat finally gets a central location where visitors can receive services and buy products.

State-wide natural-health conferences

The conference center will host Israel's top natural-health experts, teaching both a local audience in Tzfat and a worldwide audience online — making Tzfat the destination for natural medicine in Israel.

A sanctuary in stone

Ancient synagogues, living springs, blue rooftops.

The setting is half the medicine. Tzfat's holy quarter, its spring-fed mikvahs, and its hidden mountain trails are part of every program we offer.

Interior of an ancient Tzfat synagogue with vaulted white stone arches, blue accents, hanging brass oil lamps and shelves of Hebrew sefarim
Inside one of Tzfat's ancient synagogues.
A clear natural mountain spring near Tzfat flowing into a stone pool surrounded by ferns, wildflowers and ancient olive trees
A living mountain spring — natural mikvah in the Galilee.
Tzfat Old City rooftops at twilight with terracotta tiles, white domes and blue-painted shutters, with the Galilee mountains fading into dusk behind
Blue rooftops of the holy city at twilight.
In their words

Stories from participants

A few reflections from practitioners, students, and clients who have experienced Torah-rooted holistic care in Tzfat and at our sister farm in Bat Shlomo.

"I came carrying years of burnout. Between the mountain air, the treatments, and the learning, something in me finally exhaled. I left lighter — and rooted."
R., teacher
Jerusalem
"As a practitioner, I've never worked in a place where Torah and natural medicine speak the same language. Clients feel it immediately. It changes the room."
Resident practitioner
Tzfat
"The course gave me tools I use every single day with my family — eating, sleeping, praying, healing. It's the most practical Torah I've ever learned."
Online student
United States
"I walked the trails in the morning, learned in the afternoon, and slept like a child for the first time in years. This is what refuge actually feels like."
Retreat guest
Tel Aviv
"My husband and I came for a Shabbat and stayed for the week. The combination of healing rooms, classes, and the holiness of Tzfat is unlike anything else in Israel."
Couple from chu"l
Toronto
"I'm a doctor. What's being built here is the bridge our patients are missing — real medicine, real Torah, real community. I'm sending people already."
MD, family medicine
Haifa

A note on confidentiality. Names and identifying details have been changed or shortened to protect the privacy of participants. Every quote is shared with permission, and no clinical information is ever disclosed. Anything you bring into a treatment room stays in the treatment room.

Project status

Renovation funding secured

Funding has been secured to renovate the building to its former glory. The next chapter is fit-out, programming, practitioner residency, and the launch of the online course platform — and we are inviting partners to join.

Build Tzfat's healing center with us

Practitioner, partner, donor, student, or curious visitor — we'd love to hear from you.

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