UNESCO vs The Bible ✡ “Avraham buried Sara his wife in the cave of the field” – ISRAEL365

July 10, 2017July 11, 2019 Steve Martin 0 Comments

And after this, Avraham buried Sara his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre–the same is Chevron–in the land of Canaan.

Genesis 23:19 (The Israel Bible™)

וְאַחֲרֵי כֵן קָבַר אַבְרָהָם אֶת שָׂרָה אִשְׁתּוֹ אֶל מְעָרַת שְׂדֵה הַמַּכְפֵּלָה עַל פְּנֵי מַמְרֵא הִוא חֶבְרוֹן בְּאֶרֶץ כְּנָעַן

בראשית כג:יט

v’-a-kha-RAY khayn ka-VAR av-ra-HAM et sa-RAH ish-TO el m’-a-RAT s’-DAY
ha-makh-pay-LAH al p’-NAY mam-RAY hee khev-RON b’-E-retz k’-NA-an

Today’s Israel Inspiration

Genesis 23 records the purchase of the Chevron (Hebron) by Abraham as a burial plot for his wife, Sara. The Sages taught that the name Chveron (khev-ron) is a contraction of the the word ‘khaver’ /חבר (friend) and the word ‘na-eh’/נאה (agreeable). The name of the city of Hebron identifies Abraham as the first agreeable friend of God, as God says in Isaiah (41:8), “The seed of Abraham, My friend.” This past week UNESCO voted to list Chevron as a Palestinian world heritage site at risk, which US ambassador Haley called “an affront to history.” You can learn all about the unique connection between God and His people to the Hebron and to the other holy cities in Israel in Yishai Fleisher’s great course Israel’s Seven Holy Cities. This course available exclusively at the Yeshiva for the Nations, Israel365’s online academy for authentic Torah learning.

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UNESCO Rewrites Bible: Declares Hebron is Palestinian

In a secret ballot held at the World Heritage Committee’s 41st annual summit in Krakow Poland, on Friday, UNESCO voted twelve to three in favor declaring the Holy City of Hebron and the Tomb of the Patriarchs Palestinian world heritage sites.

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Today’s photo of the Cave of the Patriarchs in Chevron by Yehoshua Halevi. Under Jewish rule, the holy site has been open to people of all faiths for the past fifty years.

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