More about this boulder

On his grave stone (shown below) is, in Hebrew, "O Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer." The boulder is surely a reference to Rock of Israel. "Tzur Yisroel" - Rock of Israel were also the words that were the first spoken at his funeral service..

A 1997 story in the Cleveland Jewish News, found in their new online archive, said that the boulder was brought here from Israel. While speaking to Mina Kulber, whose memories of The Temple go back to the 1940s, we learned that after the story had been published Abba Hillel Silver's son Raphael wrote her that he had arranged for the boulder to be brought to the gravesite and that it was from southern Ohio - not from Israel. The pink granite boulder weighs about 15 tons. Such rocks, carried from far north by glacial ice perhaps 10,000 years ago, are more than 500 million years old.