What is between Hebron and Jerusalem?

A unique connection exists between Hebron and Jerusalem.

Every day, before offering the perpetual morning sacrifice, the priests in the Second Temple would recall the sleepers of the Cave of the Patriarchs.

The supervisor would send a Cohen to check with the leaf of the dawn column, which is the time of offering the perpetual sacrifice. The priest who noticed the first light would announce: Barkai! . And the priest's question was "Has the whole east lit up as far as Hebron?"

Why? - To mention the right of ancestors - Old Hebron.

This was also the case in the temple in the order of Yom Kippur worship where the right of ancestors is mentioned on the holy day, which is a day of forgiveness and forgiveness for Israel.

The legend connects Hebron and Jerusalem also on the subject of the destruction of the Temple. When the Temple was destroyed and burned, Bat Kol came out and called over the graves of ancestors:

Are you immersed in your sleep and do not know the sorrow of the world? Your sons whom you raised in sorrow, of whom they were killed in strange deaths, of whom they were exiled among their enemies... Where is mercy? Where is your faith? Arise And ask for mercy on your sons!" Immediately the fathers and mothers wake up.

On the verse in the book of Esther they demanded: On that night the king's sleep wandered - That night, the fathers of the world wandered from the Cave of the Patriarchs, and nothing more than that God sent to call the fathers to ask for mercy for their sons.

And before that:

At the time when our father Avraham asked to buy the cave of the Machpelah from the sons of Hat, they said to him: We know that God is going to give you and your sons all this land. We made a covenant that there are no Israelites inherit the city of Jebus, because it is the wish of the Jebusites, and then buy the Cave of the Patriarchs as a permanent possession. And Abraham made a covenant with them, and then they sold him the Cave of the Patriarchs for the full amount of money. And so did the Israelites when they conquered the land. Until David came And he bought from the Hibusi the site of the Temple with full money.

Also, the mountains of Hebron irrigate Jerusalem: the springs of El-Biar and El-Arub through Solomon's Pools: Hebron is connected to Jerusalem through the road of the ancestors, it is through the back of the mountain, it is through the line The watershed.

("Emek Hebron" Noam Arnon)