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Category: Translation - Hebrew
Approval Date: 4/23/2003
Family Surname:

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Need help translating the Hebrew text on this grave marker for the HIRSCHMANN family, Woodmere Cemetery, Detroit, Michigan, USA. Family members include Friedrich and Fanny Hirschmann, originally from Fuerth, Germany.

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4/21/2023 7:09 AM

I tried writing the words I think are legible and then translated below
אבן יקרה מצבה
משמרת כבוד אדיר
הנעים ליב בן יעקב
מבית הירצמאן__________
הבל לשבת _ _ _ _
כמני עליון ליום
ב' ו' אב תרמא לפ''ק
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
ידידי _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
גמול צדקתו יאיר
לבני בראו
ת.נ.צ.ב.ה

This precious stone
a rare monument of honor
the pleasant Leib son of Yaakov
______ from the house of Herschman
______ emptiness to rest
________ _____ like those above on the day
Monday the 6th of the Month of Av in the year 5641 (since the worlds creation)
____ ______ ______
_________ friends
_____ ____ ___
___ ____ ____
His charitable giving brightened
the children of his creator (his fellow man)
initials of a verse "May his soul be bound in the bundle of life," a direct quote from the Book of the Prophet Samuel / Shmuel A, 25: 29, that is traditionally engraved on Jewish tombstones.

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