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Visiting the Graves of the Righteous: Inns of Molten Blue

JL;DR SUMMARY Amidst the tense ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, hundreds of Hasidic Jews gathered at the grave of Rav Ashi on Mount Shinan, a site symbolically significant for Jewish spirituality. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish TraditionHezbollahBabylonian TalmudIsrael Lebanon BorderPilgrimageHasidimRav AshiMount ShinanJewish GravesCouncil For The Protection Of Ancestral Graves

Places mentioned

Kiryat Shmona, Northern District, Israel
"On a Friday morning in early March 2025, three months after Israel and Hezbollah struck an uneasy truce, hundreds of Jewish men, mostly Hasidim, flocked to a small tomb on the peak of Mount Shinan, a few miles west of the Israeli border town Kiryat Shmona."
Safed, Northern District, Israel
"the blue walls of Safed, and the blue of your eyes"
Meron, Northern District, Israel
"And this is most apparent in modern-day Hasidism. Thousands of people flock to the ohel of the late Lubavitcher Rebbe in Queens to get advice; Bratslav Hasidim speak of a desire (ratzon) and a craving (teshuqa)to visit the grave of their own rebbe, Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav, in the Ukrainian city of Uman, and thousands still show up every year to celebrate Rosh Hashanah in his absent presence despite the war. In Israel, the best place to encounter a tzaddiks soulis in Meron, where Rabbi Shimon bar Yochaithe second-century rabbi and mystical hero of the medieval kabbalistic classic the Zoharis buried, just as everyone says."
Tiberias, Northern District, Israel
"A few years ago, I went to Tiberias and visited the tomb of Rabbi Meir Baal Hanes, who is the patron saint of people whove lost things or who feel lost."
Jerusalem, Israel
"It also made me think of that simple Galilean tomb, high up on Mount Shinan on the Israel-Lebanon border."
Hula, Nabatieh, Lebanon
"After the First Lebanon War, the Israel Defense Forces established an outpost on Mount Shinan overlooking the Lebanese village of Hula."
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