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Category: Translation - Tombstone
Approval Date: 6/18/2025 1:50 PM
Family Surname: Ramer
Country: USA
Town: Passaic
Date of Image: 1954

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I would like translation of the Hebrew on my great grandmother’s gravestone.

Response

6/18/2025 5:32 PM

Here lies

our dear, modest, and righteous mother, Mrs.

TOBEH/TOBAH SHEYNDEL Rahmer

daughter of Reb Shlomo Ze'ev, may he rest in peace

She passed away at a satisfactory old age

on the 20th day of the month of Sivan 5714

May her soul be bound up in the bond of life.
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Some might read the first part of her name as Tova, which is an actual name and means 'the good one'. However, this stone has an unusual feature: despite the lack of vowels or other indications, here the letter 'bet' has a dot, to assure that her name would be read with a B sound and not a V sound. (Her secular name is further proof). Taube is from German and means dove.

Shayndel is a Yiddish name that means the pretty one.

I've written the family name as Rahmer, as that would be the pronunciation based on the text.

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

Shlomo is Hebrew for Solomon. Ze'ev [zeh-ayv or zeh-ehv] is Hebrew for wolf. Some men with Ze'ev as part of their name have a secular name of Wolf, Wolfgang, or similar (some even have something like William).

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