The Hebron sleeps

The ancestors are called sleeping and not dead. When the world needs mercy, the righteous of all generations pray to the Lord of Hebron and they wake up, and make a decree and God spare his world...

Just as the sons remember and remind the fathers and mothers right - so they remember and remind the sons and ask for mercy on the Israelites.

At any time there is a time when the world needs mercy, the living go and inform the souls of the righteous and weep on their graves, and the righteous wake up from their sleep and go and fly to the old people of Hebron, and inform them of the sorrow of the world, and everyone asks for mercy before God and He spares their right to the world.

Rabbi Yehoshua Deschanin said in the name of Rabbi Levi: God took the marriage of fathers - and Ishan is a key to the redemption of sons. (Midrash Rabbah)

("Emek Hebron" Noam Arnon)