The Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron (credit: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM) The Zohar also tells us that the field where Isaac “went out to meditate” (Gen. 24:63) was the field of Machpelah, where he ...

Deep inside the earth at Mt. Sinai Memorial Park, ... Such burials hark back to the Jewish patriarch Abraham, who, the Bible says, bought the cave of Machpelah in Hebron as a family crypt.

They discovered a double cave, as per the cave’s name; the Hebrew word "machpelah" means double. In the cave, they discovered human bones and artifacts from the time of the First Temple, 2,500 ...

The Cave of Machpelah, known in Hebrew as Meorath Hamachpeilah, is referred to in the Bible as the burial place of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, as well as of Rebecca and Leah.

Repeated attacks on Jewish visitors to the Cave of Machpelah, near Hebron, perpetrated by Arab youths, led to a formal protest lodged with the Vaad Leumi, National Council of Palestine Jews, by ...