My Jewish Learning is a not-for-profit and relies on your help Donate The Jewish tradition of leaving stones or pebbles on a grave is an ancient one, and its origins are unclear. It is a custom or tradition, rather than a commandment, and over time many interpretations have been offered...
simply marked with small stone mounds. Since gravestones were not utilized during this period, the mounds helped mark the location of the grave. In essence, the act of placing small stones on graves served as a way to preserve the gravesite so that as time passed, it could be found again...
The paper focuses on former tombstones from the medieval Jewish cemetery in Regensburg (1210?1519) and their further transmission, thereby concentrating on things rather than on texts as a starting point of historical analysis. In order to understand how these stones have presented themselves in thei...
“The use of any Jewish cemetery, for anything except the cemetery, is strictly forbidden in Jewish law and tradition. Most senior rabbis are very perplexed at the recent indication here in Vilna that perhaps there is an attempt to make a museum on the Shnípishok Cemetery, where our giants...
A Montreal Jewish cemetery was desecrated over the weekend when pebbles on gravestones were rearranged in the shape ofNazi swastikas, Canadian politicians and Jewish groups said on Tuesday. Hampstead Mayor Jeremy Levi condemned the vandalism of Kehal Israel Memorial Park, in which the stones that ar...
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Return of the Stones Memorial In January 2019 I first became aware that Jewish gravestones had been cut up and made into cobble stones for use in city streets during the communist era. I wrote about this on the Walking on Gravestones post. I’d heard that the Jewish community had an agree...
stones part of tending the grave. In Biblical times, gravestones were not used, graves were marked with mounds of stones. So, by placing (or replacing) the stones, one perpetuated the existence of the site. This was also helpful for Cohanim, who needed to avoid spiritual impurity that ...
The species of fungi most frequently found on the monuments were: Cladosporium herbarium , Aspergillus niger, and Alternaria alternata . The aim of the study was to detect the mycobiota living on tombstones in the historical Jewish cemetery in Wrocaw, which contains stones originating from Lower ...
A cemetery of any people is for those buried there, to lie in peace in the plots purchased freehold by their relatives, with nothing but restored gravestones on top. Not just Jewish law, it’s part of human rights of all people, dear khévre.”...