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Category: Translation - Tombstone
Approval Date: 1/21/2026 3:43 PM
Family Surname: Rubenstein
Country: USA

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Please translate into English the Hebrew on the tombstone.

Response

1/21/2026 4:04 PM

Here lies
Our dear father
Chaim Eliezer Rubenstein
Son of Yosef Mordechai. Died
21 Kislev 5677
May his soul be bound up in the bond of life (acronym)

You can use any of several on-line calendar converters to find the corresponding civil date.

1/21/2026 8:07 PM

Here lies

our dear father, Reb

CHAYIM ELIEZER Rubinstein

son of Reb Yosef Mordechai. He passed away

21 Kislev 5677

May his soul be bound up in the bond of life.
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'Reb' is an honorific; it does not mean rabbi.

Chayim is Hebrew for life. It is more commonly written as Chaim, and is pronounced CHAH-yim, with the ch as in Chanukah or Bach.

Eliezer is a Biblical name meaning G-d helps me. It is pronounced eh-lee-EH-zer. A Yiddish nickname for Eliezer is Layzer, which is why many people with the Hebrew name Eliezer have a secular name of Lazar or Lazaurs.

Yosef is Joseph. Mordechai (MORE-deh-CHIGH, again with the Ch as above). This is a Biblical name from the Book of Esther.

The 21st day of the month of Kislev of the year 5677 began at sunset on December 15th, 1916, and ended at sunset on the 16th.

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