Hebron
The soul of the Jewish people

The ancestors are called sleeping and not dead. When the world needs mercy, the righteous of all generations pray to the Lord of Hebron...

In 1267, Rabbi Moshe bar Nachman (the late Ramban) writes in a letter to his son who is in Spain: "God bless you, my son Nachman, and see...

At the time when our father Abraham asked to buy the cave of Machpelah from the sons of Het, they said to him: We know that G-d will give...

Near the entrance of the Israelites into the land, Moses sends spies to scout the land. In the course of their journey, they reach...

This was the burial order in the cave: In tractate Ta'anit in the Talmud it is stated: 'Derech Hesev are graves' - that is, Abraham is in...

In external Midrash books ("Tsva'at Bnei Ya'akov" and "The Book of Jubilees"), an ancient Jewish tradition that was not included in...

Sages said (Books of Deuteronomy): "And where do you say, forgiveness would have come from the burial of Moses to the burial of...

And God called to him from the mountain saying (Exodus 19:3) - due to the mountain, and there is no mountain but ancestors, as it is...

A unique connection exists between Hebron and Jerusalem. Every day, before offering the perpetual morning sacrifice, the priests in the...

When the sons of Jacob came to bury their father in the Cave of the Patriarchs, Esau came and stopped them, Esau said: "Yaakov buried his...

When God wanted to create His world, He looked at the deeds of the wicked and He did not want to create the world - the human generation,...

Twelve verses in the chapter "Sarah's Life" in the Book of Genesis detail at great length the ownership of the Cave of the Patriarchs, by...

Elijah the prophet used to come to study with Rabbi Yehuda Hanasi. Once on Rosh Chodesh, which is longer in prayer, Eliyahu was late and...

Abner ben Ner was killed in Hebron by Yoav ben Zuriya: "And Abner sat in Hebron and Yoav leaned into the gate to speak with him at Shlee...

"When a soul leaves this world, it enters the Cave of the Patriarchs, where Heaven opened, and it meets the first Adam and the ancestors...

Some claim that the cave of the fold belongs to Jews and Arabs alike, because our father Abraham had two sons, Isaac and Ishmael, - but...

A. Apart from the fear of impurity due to the ancestors, there are fears of impurity due to bones found under the structure on the cave,...

* Zohar Vol. 1 (Bereishit) Parashat Lech Lech, page pen, page 2, Demit Shaul and Malkuta I will hold on to David Amai, he will not accept...

Words delivered by Rabbi Eli Horovitz in his lectures to Jewish communities in the United States. "And God said to Abram... Arise, walk...

by Professor H. Goethe in Leipzig (translated by David Wiscott) Several Arab writers know how to tell that the Franks opened and...