Chayei Sarah 5785 - Chevron: The Source of Our Eternal Connection

Each year, on Parshas Chayei Sarah, thousands of Jews descend on Chevron for Shabbos.  And that is because this week we read that Avraham purchases the very first plot of land he and his children would ever own in Eretz Yisrael, Maaras HaMachpela, which is found in the city of Chevron. This becomes the burial ground for Avraham & Sarah, Yitzchak & Rivka, and Yaakov & Leah, and a place to which Am Yisrael remains connected to this very day.   And, in fact, there is much to be found…