סלונים

ציון יסוד העבודה מסלאנים

Slonim — Kever of the Yesod HaAvodah

Site of the Jewish cemetery, at the edge of the town, Slonim, Hrodna (Grodno) region, Belarus

• Resting place of Rabbi Avraham Weinberg, the Yesod HaAvodah, founder of the Slonim chassidus.
• COME KNOWING THERE MAY BE NOTHING TO STAND AT. Slonim's first Jewish cemetery goes back to the fifteenth century. A surveyor who went looking recorded that he saw and knew of no Jewish cemetery in Slonim surviving from before the war, and a second account describes only a monument at the edge of the town, on the site of the former cemetery, to the thirty-five thousand Jews of the city who were murdered.
• NO SOURCE FOUND RECORDS AN OHEL OR A MARKED KEVER for the Yesod HaAvodah. That is not the same as saying there is none — Belarus is the least documented country on this site — but nothing here should be read as a promise that his kever can be found.
• THE GROUND IS A PLACE OF KEDOSHIM. The site of the cemetery is where the murder of the city's Jews is commemorated. Behave in it accordingly, whatever else is or is not standing.
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