Welcome to The Dead Tour, Tsfat.
No, not the Grateful Dead of rock 'n roll fame.
The Holy Dead of Jewish fame.
This is a picture of the cave which is attributed to be the place of the yeshiva of Shem and his grandson Eber. Midrash says that Yaacov come here to learn for 7 years on his wasy to Lavan's back in Ur. Shem was one of the three sons of Noah.
The Kuzari explains that before the birth of the 12 tribes, divine influence was handed down father to son, sometimes skipping a generation father to grandson. Shem was the recipient from Noah of the tradition of divine inspiration.
Today the yeshiva of Shem and Eber is open only at certain times, and somehow I'm never there when it is. This is a picture of the door. There is a synagogue next door to it, which has prayer services three times a day.
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