Burial place - Hebron, Tel Rumeida
On each of our trips to Hebron (the traditional time for the Bronnaya Synagogue is before Rosh Chodesh Nisan and during the weekly Torah portion of 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 caretaker of Jewish Hebron, lives here now as well. The balcony of his house is covered with marks from shelling, 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 in accordance with Psalm 128:
"Your children shall be like olive saplings 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 (see photo in the 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 merit (zechut) of the tzadikim protect our people!
(A "Sila Tehilim" trip to the graves of the tzadikim of Hebron with Rabbi Israel Yakobov)
