Why do Jews put stones on tombstones?

[furie]

whats the meaning of the tradition and what are its origins?


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[DarkHippie]

cheaper than flowers.

Try the veal!!!

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[keithy_19]

Dammit hippie, beat me too it.

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[A.J.]

I put cheese and mushrooms on mine.

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[Yerdaddy]

It's harder to dig out three days later and cause 2000 years of trouble.

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[TooCute]

locked it up ignore this

This message was edited by TooCute on 2-28-04 @ 4:00 PM

[TooCute]

I googled <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=jews+stones+graves&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8">jews stones graves</a> and found <a href="http://www.jewish-funerals.org/stones.htm"> this page</a> which has links to many different pages with many different pssible explanations. Happy reading!

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[East Side Dave]

We put a bottle of whiskey on my dad's gravestone but he drank it all being that he was still alive! Non-dead bastard!

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[hyperspace]

when someone visits the gravesite it shows they were there. or the other kids were throwing them at us!

[JustJon]

As hyper said, I was taught that you leave a stone to show that you visited

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[BrianTheBailBondsman]

As hyper said, I was taught that you leave a stone to show that you visited

How do you know whos stone is who's?<P> You're really supose to leave a coin but you know that aint parting with they cashhhh

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[JustJon]

The point isn't who put the stone there, just that you took a stone from the ground and put it atop the tombstone.

And if no one was around, like you'd leave money out in the middle of a cemetary if you saw it there.


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[Arienette]

one time, we went to visit my grandmother's grave, and my sister put the stones on the wrong tombstone. it was pretty funny... ya know, for a cemetary.

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[shamus mcfitzy]

it was pretty funny... ya know, for a cemetary.


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[Arienette]

it was pretty funny... ya know, for a cemetary.


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it was actually quite the quandary. we didn't know whether or not to take the stones off the wrong tombstone and put them on the right one. in the end, we figured that would be wrong, so we just gathered more.

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[Snoogans]

you guessed right, cause technically, you did visit the other grave, you were right there

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[hyperspace]

sometimes they also put pepparoni.

[Katylina]

one time, we went to visit my grandmother's grave, and my sister put the stones on the wrong tombstone. it was pretty funny... ya know, for a cemetary.


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