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Category: Translation - Hebrew
Approval Date: 12/3/2003
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Please translate the grave's text. What is Rebeka father's or mother's Hebrew name? What does the inscription "shin alef : he resh samech he" means? What is the meaning of the dots over each letter?

Response

9/27/2010 7:45 AM

Translation line to line :

1) Here lies (abbreviated)
2) Mrs Rivqah
3) spouse of our Master and Techer the Rav Rabbi Benjamin haCohen Rapaport - let his memory be a blessing.
4) Died in good renown 26 Nissan 709, according to the little count (= Monday 26 Apr 1949)
5) I don't know the signification.
6) Let her soul be bound in the bundle of life (abbreviated; it's a part of verse in 1 Samuel 25:29 : � Even though someone is pursuing you to take your life, the life of my master will be bound securely in the bundle of the living by the LORD your God. But the lives of your enemies he will hurl away as from the pocket of a sling. �)

The dots above the letters indicate that it is not a word.

Avraham MALTHETE, Paris, France

4/23/2023 6:10 AM

Acronym for Here rests or here is buried
Mrs Rivkah Abbreviation for To G-d
wife of our Teacher the Rabbi Binyamin haCohen Rappaport May his memory be blessed.
She died with a good name on the 26th day of the Jewish month of Nissan in the year 709, abbreviated acronym for according to the present calendar count, meaning the digit five is understood for the whole year mentioned to be 5709 years since the creation of the world.
Acronym for "her mother's name, Haddasah (Then engraver mistakenly engraved a Resh in stead of a daled. I dont know why he put dots above the letters.
Acronym for, May his her/ soul be bound in the bundle of life (a direct quote from the Book of the Prophet Shmuel- Samuel I 25:29, that is traditionally engraved on Jewish tombstones.

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