This is a painting of what the building of Rachels' tomb looks like with the surrounding terrain, which can no longer be seen because of the walls.

 Jewish interpretations of some Old Testament scriptures that may apply to them, although the top scripture we think applies to the slaughter of the innocents at the time of Christ

 There has been some recent studying and some think that this may have been the location of where the temple flocks were kept anciently. It may have been near Rachel's tomb.  The place was anciently called Migdal Edar, where Jacob camped with his family after burying Rachel.  It is  about 2 miles from Bethlehem and about 3-4 miles south of Jerusalem

 The Jews seem to have taken up the Catholic practice of praying to various saints.  We have visited at least 3 "empty" tombs ; to Samuel, to king David and to Rachel, where the Jews come to seek solace and to pray.  It seems out of the ordinary

These may be the fields of the temple flocks.  They are more lush, somewhat flatter ground and not so many places for temple lambs to mar themselves as compared with the fields that are right in Bethlehem, that are actually very steep, and very rocky hillsides with little vegetation