Placing a Hand on a Grave - Ish Tsadik
Question:
Is it true that there is a distinction when visiting a grave, where a woman places her right hand on the grave and a man places his left hand?
Answer

I have not seen a source for this. What does appear in the writings of the Chida (Birkei Yosef, Orach Chayim, Siman 224:7) in the name of his grandfather, Rabbi Avraham Azulai, is that one places the left hand on the grave, but I found no distinction in his words between a man and a woman.

14.05.2026
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