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Some Jewish traditions are VERY old. To prevent wild animals from digging up the body of the dead person, the ancient Israelites would cover the gravesite with stones. When mourners or passers-by would come to visit the grave in later years, they would refresh the stones that animals had disturbed. (Israel in 2000 BCE could be a pretty rural place.)
For the last thousand years or so, there hasn't been much need to prevent wild animals from digging up the body, so there's no longer a need for BIG stones. So mourners place small stones on the grave to maintain the tradition. Frequently, these are just pebbles placed on the tombstone. The more pebbles, the greater the number of mourners who have visited.
In the play "Fiddler on the Roof", Tevye asks "Why do we do these things? That, I can tell you in ONE WORD; TRADITION!". This begins the song "Tradition!"
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∙ 8y ago
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∙ 12y agoit represents the peoples worries being layed down on schindler. Schindler took alot of the Jewish concerns away when he treated them well. so that was them representing there worries on his sholders!
It is an old Jewish tradition to show respect for the deceased by placing stones on his/her grave.
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∙ 8y agoJewish answer: 1. The Midrash Lekach Tov (Pesikta Zutra 35:20) relates that each of Jacob's sons took a stone and put it on Rachel's grave to make up Rachel's tomb. From this we learn that by placing stones on the grave one participates in building up the tombstone. In those days one did not mark a grave with marble or granite and a fancy inscription, but one made a cairn of stones over it. Each mourner coming and adding a stone was effectively taking part in the Mitzvah of matzevah ("setting a marker") as well as a symbolic levayat ha-meyt ("accompanying the dead"). Our present practice seems to be commemorative of this ancient tradition.
2. The book Ta'amey Ha-Minhagim (The Reasons for the Customs, pp. 470-471) says, "We put pebbles on the grave to show that the visitor was at the grave. It was a sort of calling-card for the honor of the deceased, to mark that you have paid a visit." (See also Orach Haim 224:8).
A contemporary respondent, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, confirms this custom, noting Eliyahu Rabba 224:7 as his source (Responsa Yabia Omer IV, Yoreh Deah 35).
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∙ 13y agobecause the Jews have a tradition about putting rocks on graves on great man who helped them
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