R. Binyamin (from) Todelo traveled to Eretz Yisroel
in the year 1170.
In his travel diary on מערת המכפלה, he writes, “The
Goyim
built six tombs and claim each one is for one of the
אבות & אמהות.
They fool the ignorant Goyim who pay
money, to approach
the tombs.
For Yidden who come there, and pay them money, they
open
a metal gate and allow them to go down a staircase
which leads
to another staircase and then to a third staircase.
Down there is
the cave where the אבות are actually buried.
There are six stone
Matzeivos engraved with the names of Avraham, Sarah,
Yitzchok,
Rivka, Yakov, Leah. (no
Matzeivah for Adam& Chava) There are
also many barrels filled with bones. These bones are
from Yidden
who bring their dead
and place them there so they will rest
next to the אבות.
מסעות רבי בנימין - בנימין בן
יונה, מטודלה
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