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According to the Midrash, the Patriarchs were buried in the cave because the cave is the threshold to the Garden of Eden. The Patriarchs are said not to be dead but "sleeping". They rise to beg mercy for their children throughout the generations. According to the Zohar, [81] this tomb is the gateway through which souls enter into Gan Eden (heaven).
The Cave of the Patriarchs massacre, also known as the Ibrahimi Mosque massacre [1] or the Hebron massacre, [2] was a mass shooting carried out by Baruch Goldstein, an American-Israeli physician and extremist of the far-right ultra-Zionist Kach movement.
Baruch Kopel Goldstein (Hebrew: ברוך קאפל גולדשטיין; born Benjamin Carl Goldstein; [2] December 9, 1956 – February 25, 1994) was an American-Israeli mass murderer, religious extremist, and physician who perpetrated the 1994 Cave of the Patriarchs massacre in Hebron in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, an incident of Jewish terrorism.
Jewish settlement in Hebron was sparse during this period. In the Byzantine period, when a church was built over the Cave of the Patriarchs, the authorities allowed the Jews to pray in one part of it. A synagogue was established near the entrance to the Cave, but it was converted into a church after the Crusader conquest, and the Jews were ...
The massacre at the Machpela Cave (Tomb of the Patriarchs Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebecca, Yakov and Leah) in Hebron of close to 60 Palestinians and the wounding of a further 50 was committed by a single terrorist gunman at 6.30 am on Friday morning.
The Cave of Treasures (Classical Syriac: ܡܥܪܬ ܓܙܐ, romanized: Maʿarraṯ ġazzē, Arabic: مغارة الكنوز, romanized: Maghārat al-Kunūz, Ge'ez: Baʿāta Mazāgebet, Tigrinya: መዝገብ ገዛ), sometimes referred to simply as The Treasure, is an apocryphal and pseudoepigraphical work, that contains various narratives related to the Christian Bible. [1]
The minbar in the mosque. The minbar of the Ibrahimi Mosque is an 11th-century minbar (mosque pulpit) in the Ibrahimi Mosque (Cave of the Patriarchs) in Hebron, West Bank.The minbar was commissioned by the Fatimid vizier Badr al-Jamali in 1091 for the Shrine of Husayn's Head in Ascalon (present-day Ashkelon) but was moved to its current location by Salah ad-Din (Saladin) in 1191.
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