Krynki

Why restore a cemetery?

Chesed-Shel-Emes describes those involved in the mitzvah of burying the dead. In the Torah,  Jacob summoned his son Joseph to his bedside and requested “You shall perform with me kindness and truth (Chesed V’Emes), please do not bury me in Egypt” [Genesis 47:29]. The great scholar Rashi explained why this particular act of kindness is truer than others. He wrote that this is one chesed, kindness, that can never be reciprocated as the recipient is dead.

Descendants of Krynki wish to fulfill this mitzvah by restoring their ancestral cemetery just as they visit cemeteries in their home countries today. We are working to raise money for needed cleaning work, estimated to cost $6,000.

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