By: yachtzel

yachtzel — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 03:30:32 +0000

Does anyone know if the site is still accesible?

Any pictures?

By: abbaww

abbaww — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:08:23 +0000

Using the term “mausoleum” to describe the structure built over the Chasam Sofer’s UNDERGROUND kever is misleading. The term “mausoleum” means above-ground interment, which is prohibited by the Shulchon Oruch. (A cave is by definition a below-ground or in-the-ground burial, as was the case with the Me’oras Hamachpelo and Sanhedria graves.) Rav Moshe Feinstein Zt”l wrote two teshuvos in Igros Moshe in which he ruled that anyone interred in a mausoleum is considered not to have been buried at all. He ruled that even to bury someone underground in a cemetery which also includes a mausoleum is a bizoyon hames, because the presence of the mausoleum which flouts the rules of burial constitutes a bizoyon hames for all those buried in that cemetery. It is important that people understand that mausoleum “burial” is not kosher, since mausoleum builders are misleading the public by advertising such interment as traditional Jewish means of burial.

By: Ephraim

Ephraim — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:15:44 +0000

My G-D, I was going to visit there on Wednesday, on the way to Keresztur for the Yartzeit of R’ Shayele Kerestirer. Does anyone know if it is still open?

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