The Associated Press

In this Friday, Oct. 12, 2012 photograph, Jews visit the Ari cemetery in Safed, Israel. Safed, a mysterious town in northern Israel, is a popular destination for all kabbalah. or Jewish mysticism, followers. Its distant location, several hours from Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, doesn't stop hundreds of thousands of people from visiting each year to get up close with kabbalah's origins and the Jewish mystics who defined it 500 years ago.(AP Photo/Dan Balilty)