Where is the Ramban’s grave—Haifa, Hebron, Jerusalem, and perhaps even Tiberias? • Rabbi Berland shlit"a’s revelation about the location of his grave

About his grave

Pilgrims and longstanding traditions point to the Ramban’s grave in four different places in Eretz Yisrael: Haifa, Hebron, Jerusalem, and there is even a lone tradition claiming that his grave is in Tiberias. Where is his true resting place? This was revealed by The Rav Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a about a decade ago…

On the location of his grave

While he was still alive, the Ramban sent a letter to his family overseas, in which he wrote that he was going to the holy city of Hebron to hew out a grave for himself there. After that, various travelers mention his grave in “the holy city of Hebron, may it be rebuilt and established,” leaning against the outer steps of the building of the Cave of Machpelah.

In contrast, his student wrote about 30 years after his passing that he saw the Ramban’s grave in Haifa at the foot of Mount Carmel. Many travelers followed after him and recorded the same.

[caption id="attachment_50486" align="alignnone" width="300"] The entrance to the cave of the Ba’alei HaTosafos and to the Ramban’s grave, Haifa, Israel[/caption]

Some point to his grave in Jerusalem, in the cemetery on Har HaZeisim, near the cave of Rabbi Ovadiah of Bartenura. And as mentioned, there is a lone tradition that says: “In Tiberias the Rambam and the Ramban were buried.”

Rabbi Berland shlit"a’s revelation

During the time that The Rav Rabbi Berland shlit"a was in the city of Beitar, he would travel from time to time, together with his flock, to prostrate himself in prayer at the graves of the Avos and Imahos in the Cave of Machpelah in the city of Hebron. On one of those nights, when he arrived, The Rav shlit"a stopped by the place of the Ramban’s grave, adjacent to the seventh step at the Cave of Machpelah, and said that this is the Ramban’s burial place.

[caption id="attachment_50490" align="alignnone" width="300"] The Ramban’s grave, Hebron, Israel[/caption]