On Thursday 10 December 2009 14:00:04 [email protected] wrote:
> Who in their right mind would go to a cemetery after dark anyway? > > -- Morten Well, in Jerusalem it is customary not to let the deceased "sleep over". Meaning the moment it is possible they'll bury the deceased even if that means burying him/her at 2 am. Many a time was I witness to late-night burials of relatives. I don't know if this custom exists also in other Jewish communities, to the best of my knowledge this is a Jerusalem-only custom. In any case people won't go "visit" the cemetery at night. So the question seems still appropriate. -- Tsvi _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
