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Re: pebbles and Jewish cemeteries
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Michael Trinkley <[log in to unmask]>
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HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 2 Sep 2001 19:29:00 -0400
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When a prayer is said for the dead a pebble is placed on the monument.
It is never to be removed except, as it were, by God. I apologize that I
don't know the Hebrew name for the practice; I suppose it is something
akin to the lighting of a candle in a Catholic Church. At any rate, they
should not be disturbed or swept aside -- and are very common in every
Jewish cemetery I have visited.

Best,
Mike Trinkley

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Michael Trinkley, Ph.D., RPA
Director
Chicora Foundation, Inc.
PO Box 8664
Columbia, SC 29202-8664
803/787-6910
www.chicora.org
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