“Kol Baramah Nishma…” – “A voice was heard in Ramah…Rachel weeping for her sons”
Is it possible to learn from this psalm where Rachel was buried? There seem to be two opposite interpretations, both by the same commentator: the Ramban.
The first interpretation – Ramah is in the land of Benjamin and Rachel’s sons, for whom she is weeping, are the Kingdom of Israel who are going north to the Babylonian exile. And the second interpretation – Rachel is buried in Bet Lechem in Judah, and only the sound of her weeping reached Ramah.
So what does the Ramban really think??
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