In the month of Shvat the Almighty has shown us signs and wonders that none of our forefathers ever witnessed, and on the 11th of
that month, on Thursday, about one in the afternoon . . .
[because] of the quake many towers fell down, almost the third of their
height, and the tower of “A. A.”
(
the tower over Abraham's tomb in Hebron ?) was one of them. About ten gentiles were killed in Jerusalem but none of the Jews, and in the town
of Nablus the earthquake was so strong that at least three hundred gentiles, and three or four Jews were killed. There were also
further shocks after that, but not so strong, and to this day we are in constant fear of an earthquake all day and night (Braslavski 1938).
