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Category: Translation - Tombstone
Approval Date: 3/18/2026 2:48 PM
Family Surname: Goldberg

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Please translate the hebrew on this head stone.

Thank you

Response

3/18/2026 5:02 PM

In the star at the top: the abbreviation for "here lies"

The next line contains a group of five letters that I have not encountered before. It may be an abbreviation, but I do not know its meaning.

This is followed by:

An unblemished and honest man

Elderly, satisfied in days [in other words: reached a ripe old age]

YITZCHAK son of Reb Yosef

He died 5 [or: 8] Shvat 5691

May his soul be bound up in the bond of life.
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Yitzchak [pronounced YITZ-chahk, with the ch as in Chanukah or Bach] is Hebrew for Isaac. Yosef is Joseph.

'Reb' is an honorific; it does not mean rabbi.

The letters that represent the numbers 5 and 8 are very similar; it is hard to be sure what the exact date of death was. Here are the two corresponding secular dates:

The 5th of Shvat, 5691, began at sunset on January 22nd, 1931, and ended at sunset on January 23rd.

The 3th of Shvat, 5691, began at sunset on January 25th, 1931, and ended at sunset on January 26th.

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