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 |  Subject: What’s Really Buried In Hebron’s Cave Of Patriarchs? Hidden Chambers Revealed!  Sun Jan 15, 2017 8:13 am | |
| What’s Really Buried In Hebron’s Cave Of Patriarchs? Hidden Chambers Revealed!
January 15, 2017 by SkyWatch Editor
 Arnon had heard rumors of a lower chamber. After Hebron was conquered in 1967, Moshe Dayan, then Secretary of Defense and an amateur archaeologist, lowered a young girl down a covered shaft that tradition said led to the cave. When she came back, she described a small chamber and stone steps leading back up to the hall. Based on a crude map drawn by the young girl, Arnon determined that the stairs led up to the Hall of Isaac, a section of the complex normally forbidden to Jews. The group decided to make their attempt in the month of Elul, when Jews were permitted into the hall at night in order to pray Selichot, a special service asking for forgiveness said in the days preceding Yom Kippur […] In front of their eyes were revealed the stairs the young girl had described, carved into the bedrock. “We descended to the bottom where there was a long and narrow tunnel, sloping even further down, that opened into a chamber with a roughly tiled floor,” Arnon said. But there was still no sign of the cave as described in Genesis. “I felt a slight wind and realized there had to be another opening,” Arnon said. “We followed the airflow and and tracked it to an opening in the floor covered by a stone. We pried it open and crawled down into a cave carved into the bedrock… (READ MORE) |
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