Tzfat Tzunset: When The Heavens Open
A fiery Galilee sunset over Mount Meron signals the season’s first long-awaited rain, captured from Tzfat just moments before the storm broke.
Thursday night’s sunset over Mount Meron felt less like a view and more like a prayer answered. The sky over the Galilee lit up in volcanic reds and embered oranges, the kind of color that happens only when the air is swollen with weather about to break. I shot this from Tzfat on the S24 Ultra in full 200-megapixel auto mode, then pulled the tones together in Lightroom Mobile—but honestly, nature did most of the work.
The molten-red sunset ushered in the year’s first heavy rainfall and a night of rumbling thunder.
The first real rain of the season was already waiting in the wings. You could feel it in the weight of the air, see it in the bruised edges of the clouds. Minutes after the sun dropped, the heavens finally opened. A heavy, overdue rain—rolling in with low, traveling thunder—washed the dust off the hills and drummed through the night and into Friday morning.
There’s something about a storm like that in the Galilee, especially on the cusp of Shabbat. It’s as if the land exhales. The heat loosens its grip. The parched mountains take their first drink in months. And for a moment the whole region feels newly washed, newly possible.
Shabbat Shalom from Tzfat.