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Some traditions have some kind of reason when they start, but after a couple of hundred years, the reason people still do them is usually "because that's what we've always done." Sometimes people will even come up with a reason that seems to make sense, even if it's not the same reason the custom started to begin with.

Opinion is divided on whether it's even a Jewish tradition or if it originated with some other culture and the Jews have just preserved it after the originators abandoned it. At least one Rabbi claims it originated from an ancient custom of putting rocks on graves to keep animals out and evil spirits in.

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