35:19 Rachel is not buried in Me’oras Hamachpeila. Kever Rachel is
south of Yerushalayim. Rashi in Parshas Vayechi in 48:7 tells us, Yaakov tells Yosef that (וַאֲנִי בְּבֹאִי מִפַּדָּן, מֵתָה עָלַי רָחֵל בְּאֶרֶץ כְּנַעַן בַּדֶּרֶךְ, בְּעוֹד כִּבְרַת-אֶרֶץ, לָבֹא אֶפְרָתָה; וָאֶקְבְּרֶהָ שָּׁם בְּדֶרֶךְ אֶפְרָת, הִוא בֵּית לָחֶם).
Meaning, when I came from Padan, Rochel died on the road, when there was a
stretch of land, before coming to Ephros, I buried her there on the road to
Ephros. Why did Yaakov bury Rochel there on the road? Rashi says, (שתהא לעזרה לבניה כשיגלה אותם נבוזראדן). Meaning, so that Rochel might help her descendants when
Nevuzaradon would send them into exile and they would pass by her grave. When
the Yidden were going out of Yerushalayim to Bavel why would they pass Kever
Rochel, Bavel was north or east and not south?
Another problem
is, the Ramban says in this weeks Parsha that Yaakov Avinu buried her there so
that she should be buried in the Cheilek of Binyamin. The Cheilek of Binyamin
was above Yehuda and as we know from the Gemara in Maseches Makkos, the
dividing line was the Mizbaiach. So anything south of Yerushalayim is not
Cheilek Binyamin it is Cheilek Yehuda. So how does the Ramban fit?
A third question
is, there is another Ramban that says the Avos kept the Torah when they were in
Eretz Yisrael. That is why when Yaakov Avinu came to Eretz Yisrael, he lost one
of his wives. He had married sisters and that was fine for Chutz L’aretz,
however, not for Eretz Yisrael. This is why when Hashem told Yaakov to leave
the house of Lavan he had to ask Rishus from his wives, because he knew it was
a Sakana to them, to be married to sisters in Eretz Yisrael.
The Ramban says
that Rochel died when Yaakov Avinu entered Eretz Yisrael. Kever Rochel is not
on the boundary of Eretz Yisrael at all. It is surrounded by plenty of Eretz
Yisrael? Rochel was pregnant and was carrying Binyamin. We know from Parshas
Shemos that Dinei Shamayim is not taken out on someone who is pregnant, the
person doesn’t die and the baby is born. Perhaps, when she entered Eretz
Yisrael there was a Din that she should die, however, she had to give birth
first, and that is why her death occurred later.
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