Burial site - Hebron, Tel Rumeida
On each of our trips to Hebron (the traditional time for the Bronnaya Synagogue group - before Rosh Chodesh Nissan and during the week of Parashat Chayei Sarah), tours of Jewish Hebron are led by the artist Shmuel Muchnik, who has lived in Hebron for many years (his painting is shown in the photo).
"Tel Rumeida" is one of the neighborhoods of Hebron where Jews live. Shmuel Muchnik lives here, and Baruch Marzel - the guardian of Jewish Hebron - lives here now as well. The balcony of his house is covered with marks from gunfire, and even the shell casings have been preserved.
If you continue walking along the Jewish quarter, you come to a small olive grove (which the artist himself showed us, and even gave the "Sila Tehilim" website an illustration of the words of the psalm) - the olive trees grow according to Psalm 128:
"Your children shall be like olive shoots around your table."
This refers to the tradition that in Hebron, when an old olive tree was cut down, young olive trees would begin to sprout around the resulting stump (as shown in the photo accompanying this post).
Just around the corner from the olive grove is the grave of Yishai and Ruth - the father and great-grandmother of David HaMelech.
May the zechut of the tzadikim protect our people!
(A "Sila Tehilim" trip to the Kivrei Tzadikim of Hebron with Rav Yisrael Yakobov)
