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Jeremiah the prophet in the Cave of the Patriarchs

  • Writer: צבי הורביץ
    צבי הורביץ
  • May 31, 2023
  • 1 min read

God said to Jeremiah the prophet: Today I am like a man who had an only son and made a canopy for him and died inside his canopy, and you have no pain either for me or for my son? Go and call Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and Moses from their graves that they know how to cry!

...Immediately Jeremiah went to the Cave of the Patriarchs and said to the fathers of the world: Stand, the time has come for you to be asked before God...

Immediately the fathers woke up, they also tore their clothes and put their hands on their heads and were walking shouting and crying until the gates of the Temple.


"(Nebuchadnezzar) became very angry and went out and killed many and returned many captives, and he brought the people of Israel imprisoned in iron chains and led them naked and carrying sand on their necks, and Jeremiah the prophet went with them until they came to the graves of the ancestors, and he screamed and cried and said: Merciful ancestors, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob , arise from your graves, and see your children, the House of Israel, who are walking in captivity and exile!'

He rose from the graves of the fathers and went and prostrated himself on the graves of the mothers, he answered and said: "Merciful mothers, Sarah Rebekah and Leah, rise from your graves and see your sons and daughters with Israel, whom you have truly raised, who are walking in captivity and exile!..."


(Zahar - Book of the Cave of the Patriarchs)

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