Footnote 10 – Patriarchal Burial Site Explored for First Time in 700 Years

Rabbi Ovadiah of Bartenura who visited the site in 1488 relates that the Moslems who “prostrate themselves there would make a monetary donation which would be let down into the caves. When they wished to go down to collect the money, they would lower a young boy down by a rope and he would recover the money and come up.”