[Mesorah] "Vayigva Yitzchok vayomos vayeosef el amov"

SBA areivim at sba2.com
Sun Dec 2 05:50:04 PST 2007


Micha Berger
Dov Bloom wrote:
: Acc'd to the moderns, vayeosef el amov - He was buried in the family
: burial plot. (literally came from the idea of likut atzamot, for a
: year the body decomposed, and after a year all the bones were put in a
: family pile?

RARakeffet blames the unpopularity of Austritt on this phenomenon. RSRH,
later in life, lamented how few of his own kehillah actually bought in.
The Gemeinde owned and controlled the cemetary. We are a very mobile
society. But to people who have generations of ancestors buried in the
same plot, the notion of leaving the community and therefore being buried
elsewhere was a daunting prospect.
>.

I disagree. 
After all the O (and austritt) communities in Hungary had the same
situation. They went ahead and created hundreds of new O communities and
cemeteries.

SBA 




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