The Italy Experience
Venice · Padua · Ferrara · Reggio Emilia · Florence
Some journeys are about seeing a place. This one is about meeting it.
The arrival is Venice itself: water taxi through the canals, the grandeur of the Doge's Palace, and a walk through the Jewish ghetto with a guide chosen for depth, not convenience. Murano and Burano follow, where centuries of glassmaking tradition reveal themselves up close.
From there, the journey turns inward. Padua's ghetto and the home of the Ramchal. The kevarim of the Mahram of Padua, Don Yitzchak Abarbanel, and the Mahril Mintz. Verona's ancient grandeur and an afternoon on Lake Garda. Then Ferrara, where the resting places of the Pachad Yitzchak and other tzaddikim are met with quiet reverence, and Cento, where the Sforno and the Mishnas Chasidim are honored. In Reggio Emilia, the journey reaches its heart: the kever of the Zera Shimshon, marked with a yartzheit seuda at a kosher winery.
Florence closes the journey in a different register entirely. Shacharis at a shul of remarkable beauty, then the artistry of the Accademia, the Ponte Vecchio, and the Boboli Gardens. An afternoon for shopping, an evening at a kosher winery.
For those who wish to extend the experience, an optional weekend in Rome awaits.
This is a journey through scholarship, sanctity, and beauty, woven into one experience and carried by those who know precisely how.
