, whilst E and A have the faulty reading
. The Seder Hadoroth has the same reading as E and A. Jehuda Halevi died about thirty years before Benjamin's visit, and the question of the burial-place of our great national poet is thus finally settled.
The common belief is that Simon the Just was buried near Jerusalem, on the road to Nablous, about a mile from the Damascus Gate.
Cf. Schechter's Saadyana, p. 89.
The passage referring to the Arnon is evidently out of place.