The Tomb Mark of Rabbi Meir – the miracle maker (In Hebrew: Baal Hanes), is a large complex in southern Tiberias on a hill above Hamat Tiberias. It is the tomb of Rabbi Meir and two of his students by local tradition. The site is a popular destination among the Ultra-Orthodox Jews.

Rabbi Meir Baal Hanes and His Tomb

Rabbi Meir lived in the 2^nd century and was the fourth generation (Tana’im) of Rabbinical sages in the Mishnah. The Babylonian Talmud stated that his wisdom was unsurpassed. Being a student of Rabbi Akiva, although he passed away in Asia Minor (today’s Turkey), tradition maintains that he was brought for burial in Tiberias, where Rabbi Akiva was buried.

Touring the Tomb Mark of Rabbi Meir Baal Hanes

Rabbi Meir’s tomb complex is the biggest of all tomb marks in Tiberias. It is open every day of the week and has two synagogues, Ashkenazi and Sephardic, operating inside. Popular belief maintains that giving charity at the site and calling “God of Meir – Answer Me“could lead to miraculous events. The Rabbis’s yahrzeit, the 14th of Iyar, is marked by a big celebration (hilulah), in which the crowds pray in his memory and light hundreds of candles.

A tour of Rabbi Meir Ball Hanes’s tomb can be combined with a guided day tour of the Galilee.