Posted by: jewwishes | October 16, 2007

Jew Wishes On: Stones at Gravesite

When Jews visit the gravesite in a Jewish cemetery, it is a tradition for them to leave one stone on the headstone, to let others know that someone else has visited, before them.

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The symbolism is that Jews are constantly, and never finished, building a monument to the deceased.  This photograph, taken in Jerusalem, is an example of a visitor leaving a stone on a headestone  in a Jewish cemetery located in Jerusalem.

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Jew Wishes…Peace for All.


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