- Family and Society
- Burial and the Cemetery
Unveilings / Timelines
Question
Is there, within halacha, any prescribed period of time that MUST pass before a headstone can be placed / unveiled? If not, can it be be in place on the day of the funeral ?
Answer
According to Kabbalah the headstone shouldn't be put during the seven days of mourning, but it is good to attend to it right after that so that it will be up as quick as possible. It is custom to carve the name close to the Shloshim (30th day), and to those who have the custom of visiting the grave on the Shloshim, have the unveiling then.
Rabbi Ro'i Margalit

Viewing a Body After Tahara
Various Rabbis | 12 Kislev 5765

Burial and kaddish for a child under 5 days old
Various Rabbis | Nisan 23, 5768

Study in cemetery
Rabbi Jonathan Blass | 22 Tevet 5763

Moving a buried Tsaddik
Rabbi Yoel Lieberman | Cheshvan 6, 5780

Various Rabbis
Various Rabbis including those of of Yeshivat Bet El, such as Rabbi Chaim Katz, Rabbi Binyamin Bamberger and Rabbi Yitzchak Greenblat and others.

Becoming a Ger
1 Kislev 5763

Backyard Eruv
15 Kislev 5763

Destruction of Divrei Torah
2 Kislev 5763

REDEMPTION, Why - What did I do!?
4 Cheshvan 5763

Parsha readings on weekdays
Various Rabbis | Kislev 25, 5775

No-wedding days
Rabbi David Sperling | Sivan 20, 5772

Mezuzah for a Catholic Family?
Rabbi David Sperling | Nisan 15, 5779

Mezzuzah for Non Jew
Rabbi David Sperling | Iyyar 18, 5773

negiah with niece - level of prohibition
Rabbi David Sperling | Iyyar 21, 5782

Noahides
Rabbi Ari Shvat | Iyyar 25, 5782
Tenach Melochim
Rabbi Daniel Kirsch | Iyyar 16, 5782
