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For information onThree Upcoming Major Events B’Ezrat Hashem at Kever Rachel, click here.

URGENT: “Stop The Encagement Of Rachel’s Tomb”, by Evelyn Haies, President Rachel’s Children Reclamation Foundation, and Beit Bnei Rachel Corp

Note: When pictures of the various recently erected walls encaging Kever Rachel arrive, they will be posted here. MB

Excerpts;

“On February 1, 2006, Shevat 3, Rachel’s Children Reclamation Foundation hosted a wonderful shiur at our house, Beit Bnei Rachel adjoining Kever Rachel by a corridor the army had us build on what we named Derech Chaya Rachel. Atara Gur spoke to a group of women about the Jewish Mother who was buried “on the way”. She spoke of Rachel’s ohel in Beis Lechem as a house of bread, provisions, family, unity as presented in a special Siddur Rachel Imeinu, compiled in 1911 by a Yerushalimi. It was sad and demeaning to have been blocked from traveling directly via Hevron Road as was the custom or Jewish Pilgims for 3600 years. It was inspiring and comforting to learn of Rachel’s midos and the prognosis for a better world.” read more

There are three important events being planned for Kever Rachel in the next two weeks;

Sefer
Torah Recycling Network and dedicated by Dr.
and Mrs. Lee Caplan in memory of his Dad.

These three events are particularly important and crucial in light of the current attempts by the government to encage the Kever Rachel complex by way of walls and fences, thus attempting to obstruct normal, regularly scheduled access to Kever Rachel. read more

Nightly Chanukah Candle Lighting at Rachel’s Tomb

Excerpt:

“Every night of Chanukah, beginning this coming Sunday night, candles will be lit at the Tomb of Rachel in Bethlehem, just several hundred meters south of the Jerusalem municipal border. The nightly candle-lighting is an initiative of the National Holy Site Development Center.”

The Midrash Says, by Rabbi Moshe Weissman writes regarding Parsha Chukas (Sefer Bamidbar, pages 245-247):

There are numerous examples of chukim…. Since they contain apparently contradictory elements, they are liable to be ridiculed by a rational thinker. The Torah advises the Jew to tell himself, It’s a chok; I have no right to question it.”

Nevertheless, chukim are not “laws without reasons”; rather their logic is Divine. The greatest among our people were able to understand some of them. read more

The Midrash Says, by Rabbi Moshe Weissman writes regarding Parsha Chukas (Sefer Bamidbar, pages 245-247):

There are numerous examples of chukim…. Since they contain apparently contradictory elements, they are liable to be ridiculed by a rational thinker. The Torah advises the Jew to tell himself, It’s a chok; I have no right to question it.”