In this place stood a mound of stones marking the burial place of Rabbi Kalonymus the Miracle Worker, a Jerusalem Rabbi who lived in the 16th century. According to tradition, Rabbi Kalonymus's piety miraculously saved the Jewish community from a blood libel planned by their gentile neighbours. The saintly rabbi was forced to desecrate the Sabbath to save his fellow Jews, and the transgression caused him such tremendous sorrow that of his deathbed he bid his community to bury him outside the Jewish cemetery. There was no gravestone over his burial place, but rather a pile of stones that remained there for hundreds of years until it was destroyed by the Jordanians.