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<DIV>In a message dated 12/2/2007 8:50:19 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
areivim@sba2.com writes:</DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Micha
Berger<BR>Dov Bloom wrote:<BR>: Acc'd to the moderns, vayeosef el amov - He
was buried in the family<BR>: burial plot. (literally came from the idea of
likut atzamot, for a<BR>: year the body decomposed, and after a year all the
bones were put in a<BR>: family pile?<BR><BR>RARakeffet blames the
unpopularity of Austritt on this phenomenon. RSRH,<BR>later in life, lamented
how few of his own kehillah actually bought in.<BR>The Gemeinde owned and
controlled the cemetary. We are a very mobile<BR>society. But to people who
have generations of ancestors buried in the<BR>same plot, the notion of
leaving the community and therefore being buried<BR>elsewhere was a daunting
prospect.<BR>>.<BR><BR>I disagree. <BR>After all the O (and austritt)
communities in Hungary had the same<BR>situation. They went ahead and created
hundreds of new O communities and<BR>cemeteries.<BR><BR>SBA
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<DIV>In our long, tragic history, we Jews have traveled far from the burial
places of our ancestors over and over and over again.</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT lang=0 face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF"
PTSIZE="10"><B><BR></B>--Toby<BR><B>--Toby
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