Love of the Land - Peki'in
  Selections from classical Torah sources which express the special relationship between the People of Israel and Eretz Yisrael PEKI'IN Many legends surround this village in the north of Israel. New Peki'in was established as a Jewish community in 1955, a short distance from Old Peki'in, a village populated by Druze, Christians and a few Jews. One tradition is that the Jewish community in Peki'in was never exiled from the Holy Land. Arab riots in 1936 forced the Jews of Peki'in to leave their homes for safer parts of the country and only a few of them later returned. Another tradition is connected with the ancient synagogue which was restored in 1837. Two carved stones lying sideways were reportedly brought from Jerusalem and legend has it that they fell on their sides as a sign of mourning when the Temple was destroyed.
But certainly the most famous tradition regarding
Peki'in is that it houses the cave in which the great Talmudic
Sage Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai and his son Elazar hid from the Romans
for thirteen years, miraculously sustained by a spring of water
and a carob tree while totally absorbed in the study of Torah.
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