Join us for Shabbat Hebron for Parshat Chayei Sarah

Shabbat Parshat Chayei Sarah in Hebron is the experience
of a lifetime.

 

November 22-23, 2019 (Shabbat before Thanksgiving).

 

The Hebron Fund will be joining the thousands of people anticipated for the
annual Shabbat Hebron weekend with a special program, featuring:

 

Catered meals.

Great accommodations.

Meaningful prayers and tours.

R/t coach transportation.

 

Read the Torah portion that described the Cave of Machpela at the actual
site. Meaningful prayers lead by Rabbi Simcha Hochbaum and Sruli Hersh.

 

Plus a special dinner featuring exciting guest speakers, Members of Knesset
and more.

 

For more information visit

call 718-677-6886

email info@hebronfund.org

Special rate for parent with accompanying child (through college age).

 

Begun in the mid 1990s, Shabbat Hebron brings people to see the hometown of
Abraham and Sarah and the towering edifice that serves as a memorial to the founders of
the Jewish nation. The festive atmosphere sees families, singles, teens and seniors
citizens enjoying a picnic-like weekend. Organized tours take place through the old
city. Members of Knesset and diplomats from abroad often attended.  Last year broke
all previous records with 40,000 people in attendance, hosted in huge tents set up by
local organizations such as the Jewish Community of Hebron, the Hebron Fund, Hebron
Hospitality and Chabad of Hebron. 

 

The following is the full text of the section of the Bible dealing with the
purchase of the Cave of Machpela.

Genesis chapter 23 verses 1-20.

Jewish Publication Society,  1917 (public domain)

 

And the life of Sarah was a hundred and seven and twenty years; these were the years of
the life of Sarah. And Sarah died in Kiriath Arba–the same is Hebron–in the land
of Canaan; and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her. 

 

And Abraham rose up from before his dead, and spoke unto the children of Heth,
saying: “I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a
burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”

 

And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him: “Hear us, my lord: thou art
a mighty prince among us; in the choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us
shall withhold from thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead.”

 

And Abraham rose up, and bowed down to the people of the land, even to the children of
Heth. And he spoke with them, saying: “If it be your mind that I should bury my
dead out of my sight, hear me, and entreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar, that
he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he hath, which is in the end of his field;
for the full price let him give it to me in the midst of you for a possession of a
burying-place.” 

 

Now Ephron was sitting in the midst of the children of Heth; and Ephron the Hittite
answered Abraham in the hearing of the children of Heth, even of all that went in at the
gate of his city, saying: “Nay, my lord, hear me: the field give I thee, and the
cave that is therein, I give it thee; in the presence of the sons of my people give I it
thee; bury thy dead.” 

 

And Abraham bowed down before the people of the land. And he spoke unto Ephron in
the hearing of the people of the land, saying: “But if thou wilt, I pray thee, hear me:
I will give the price of the field; take it of me, and I will bury my dead there.”

 

And Ephron answered Abraham, saying unto him: “My lord, hearken unto me: a piece of land
worth four hundred shekels of silver, what is that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore
thy dead.” 

 

And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he
had named in the hearing of the children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver,
current money with the merchant.

 

So the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field,
and the cave which was therein, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in
all the border thereof round about, were made sure unto Abraham for a possession in
the presence of the children of Heth, before all that went in at the gate of his
city. 

 

And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah
before Mamre–the same is Hebron–in the land of Canaan. And the field, and the cave
that is therein, were made sure unto Abraham for a possession of a burying-place by the
children of Heth. 

 

For past articles see here: 

* Shabbat Hebron
2015

* Shabbat Hebron
2016

* Shabbat Hebron
2017

* Shabbat Hebron
2018

 

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