(New York Times)Joseph Berger- Thousands of men and women in Israel look for love in a decidedly old-fashioned way: they pray at the tomb of a rabbi who has been dead for 2,000 years. Rabbi Yonatan ben Uziel was a disciple of Hillel, the revered Talmudic sage of the first century BCE. There has evolved around him an unshakable belief that he can intercede for those desperate to find love. Every year, on the anniversary of his death in the Hebrew calendar, thousands of pilgrims visit his grave in the northern Galilee to recite Psalms.
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