Perhaps the most significant and memorialized of our Matriarchs is Jacob's favorite wife Rachel known in Yiddish as Mama Rochel. After waiting for many years to have children, Rachel died during the childbirth of her second son Benjamin. She was the only Matriarch not buried in Hebrew, instead her tomb is in Bethlehem.

Rachel's unique role as the mother of our people, has made a tradition for Jews to go to her tomb and ask her to pray for us whenever we are in trouble.