Built to represent the Cave of Machpelah from the Bible's Genesis, the cave's interior is a dazzling retreat of biblical ...

And they buried him [Abraham], Isaac and Ishmael his sons, in the Cave of Machpelah … (Genesis 25:9). I wonder: how many of you have been to Hebron? Hebron means “friendship” or “unity.” How ironic.

To this day, the Cave of Machpelah remains one of the most sacred places in Jewish tradition. It is also a shrine for Muslims, known as the Haram el-Khalil (“The Sacred Precinct of the Friend of ...