Subsequently three more couples joined them: Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebecca ... What does this have to do with the Machpelah cave? Burial in the double cave is a metaphor for the two ...

The Torah attaches great importance to Abraham’s purchase of the Cave of Machpelah in Hebron as a burial place for his wife Sarah. The purchase of the Cave of Machpelah was the first documented ...

By purchasing a prominent burial plot – the Cave of Machpela – that ... the Cave of Machpela was to show Abraham’s great regard for Sarah; and Rabbi Sacks who thinks it was about modeling ...

In synagogues around the world this Sabbath, congregations will read the Torah portion describing Sarah's death and burial. Abraham purchased the Mearat HaMachpela [literally the "double cave ...

And now we return to Abraham buying the Machpela Cave. Let us look at Rabbeinu Yonah’s precise words: “The tenth [test] was the burial of Sarah; He had told him, ‘Rise, walk through the ...

We read in our Parasha (23:1-20), of the sad tidings that greeted Avraham Avinu, on his return from the akeida to Hebron: his beloved soul-mate, Sarah ... permit the burial in the cave, with ...

For the first time ever, the 21-member World Heritage committee recognized on Friday a significant Jewish religious site — the Cave of ... there? Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, Sarah, Rebecca and ...

After the mourning period for Sarah, Abraham negotiates for a burial place and eventually buys the cave of Mahpelah. In the negotiation Avraham mentioned that he is a stranger in the land.

Abraham sees Sarah die; he weeps for her and eulogizes her. Yet suddenly, after the eulogy comes to the negotiation for the burial plot, his discussion with the children of to buy the cave of ...

Abraham insisted on buying the cave at full cost. As did King David when purchasing the Temple Mount. Ephron didn’t sense the holiness in the cave. His name in Hebrew means “dust ...

And designers say that by October it will be the only place outside of Israel where a person can receive a genuine cave burial. Such burials hark back to the Jewish patriarch Abraham, who ...