Question: When making reference to the nifter during keil malei rachamim is it ploni ben/bas mother or father? Answer: Thank you for your question. The Ashkenazi minhag (including chassidim) is… Read more »
Category: Cemetery
What possible reasons would a burial and matzeva be moved elsewhere?
Question: My wife was nifter over two years ago. Directly behind her plot I recognized the name of a person I worked with back in the mid-1960s. My last recent… Read more »
Relieving oneself near Jewish graves
Question: please help me and clarify this question. a friend of mine. who is good jew, we went together to kever tsaddikim to visit in Ukraine. and he wanted to… Read more »
Writing Kvitels
Question: There is a custom of people davening at kivrei tzadikim. There are some that write letters or kvitelach and kivrei tzadikim (for ex. at the kever of various rebbes z”l… Read more »
Daven at kivrei tzadikim at night
Question: Can one daven at a kever at night? Answer: It is permitted to daven at a kever at night, especially at kivrei tzadikim, as is the minhag to daven… Read more »
Unveiling Ceremony for Temporary Headstone
Question: My family is trying to arrange an unveiling ceremony for our mother, a”h. Unfortunately, the company the cemetery uses to make the headstones does sloppy work, and we’ve had… Read more »
matzava
Question: A woman was married to Mr. a for many years and had children with him, after he passed away she married Mr. b, whose name goes on her matzava… Read more »
Burial in a non-Jewish cemetery
Question: I am living far away from a Jewish cemetery, can my children bury me in a non-Jewish cemetery. Should I pass away, can my body be buried in a… Read more »
Which is the correct Hebrew name
Question: If someone’s given Hebrew name is for example Avraham but everybody calls/called him Avrum – which name should be used for mishaberach lecholim it for yehrtzeit, or for that… Read more »
Kohen at Auschwitz
Question: As a followup question to https://dinonline.org/2017/04/29/tefilin-at-auschwitz/ , If it is permissible to put on Tefillin at Auschwitz, does that mean that a Kohen would be allowed to enter anywhere in… Read more »
Tefilin at Auschwitz
Question: I noticed on the March of the Living that a certain group of chassidim were putting tefillin on the young men within the gates of Auschwitz. They were also… Read more »
Unveiling
Question: Is one allowed to have an unveiling (hakomas matzeivah) during Chol Hamoed? Answer: Since the custom is to say a hesped about the niftar at the hakomas hamatzeivah therefore it should… Read more »