Baba and a group of Rabbis at Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron, 1967.
Third from Esther is Rabbi Epstein from the Yeshiva Meah Shearim.
Fourth from Esther (middle) is Yosef La'ab Zusman, Kabbalist and Esther's nephew.
Machpela, Hebron 1967
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Machpela or Isaac?
Isaac - Yitchok
Avner Ben Ner
Whenever Esther visited Israel she would also visit
"Kever Rachel" - Rachel's Tomb,
one of the Hebrew matriarchs from the Old Testament.
As a young girl in Jerusalem she used to visit Rachel's Tomb, it had
special meaning for her.
In 1967 she purchased and donated a trellice or parocheth -
ritual ark curtain - for the Holy Ark at Rachel's tomb.
Quoted from one of her Banquet Dinner Souvenir Journals -
"This is the picture of the POROCHOS we have made on the
Tomb of our Mother Rachel."
Quoted from one of her Banquet Dinner Souvenir Journals - "We have had the great Zchoos to make the ORON HAKODOSH at the Tomb of our MOTHER RACHEL."
Esther Leibowitz visits Sarah's Tomb, 1967.
Esther Feigel visited Sarah's Tomb, and I know that Sarah was infertile
till a late age, and is symbolic of problems bearing children.
My grandmother had already buried 3 of her 6 children by the time
she went to Israel in 1949, and could identify with the Hebrew
matriarchs and their challenges.
Last modified July 2007.