A Paschal Greeting
A certain tradition holds that on one's way from Tzfat in upper Galilee toward the North to the village of Ein al-Zeitun, passing a carob tree, you will find buried a Jewish rabbi, under a pile of stones pointing toward Jerusalem. I like to think that the oldest of his brothers, who went on to lead his followers, followed him to the bitter end, bore witness to his execution, and was then faced with a quandary when a wealthy follower unexpectedly procured the body. He doesn't belong in the family tomb... he doesn't belong to one family anymore. But neither does the body belong in a stone monument like that of other rabbis... he was never supposed to die. "...behold, he goeth before you into Galilee..." Yes -- he'd want to be in his special place of refuge in the mountains back home, the place he would go alone to pray. Those who love him will remember where he is laid. Another tradition places this same body under a burial mound, topped with a cross, in the vi