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Submitted by Alexander Skolnick

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Category: Translation - Hebrew
Approval Date: 7/9/2003
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Can someone please translate this headstone. Sorry about the quality of the photo.

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9/26/2010 3:10 AM Translation, line to line :

1) (Here lies (in the upper part, half-circle)
2) Yeshayah (= Isaias)
3) son of His Honour the Rav Rabbi Aqiva - let his memory be a blessing -
4) Yaqubowitsch,
5) died in good renown at the age of 70 years
6) on the 18 Av of the year (difficult to read).
7) Let his soul be bound in the bundle of life.

All the best.

Avraham MALTHETE, Paris, France.
12/19/2024 6:34 PM The date appears to be the 18th of Av, in the year 5670 (which began on Monday at sunset Aug. 22 and ended on Tuesday evening August 23, 1910)

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