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Question

Category: Translation - Tombstone
Approval Date: 2/4/2026 3:46 PM
Family Surname: Rothman
Country: USA
Town: Brooklyn
Date of Image: 1916

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Translation please

Response

2/4/2026 7:55 PM

Here lies

our dear father, our teacher, the rabbi

YAAKOV YECHIEL MICHEL son of Reb Eliezer

He passed away

6 Tamuz 5676

May his soul be bound up in the bond of life.
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The name of the deceased is preceded by an abbreviation that represents the words “our teacher, the rabbi”. This normally indicates that the person had rabbinical ordination, not necessarily that he was the rabbi of a synagogue or community. I need to point out that this abbreviation occasionally appears in error (or, sometimes, simply as words of praise to indicate that the person was scholarly), so I would suggest trying to get confirmation of his rabbinical status – if any – from a second source.

The deceased seems to have three separate names, but it is more likely that it is a double name, with the second and third parts being themselves part of a common double name, Yechiel Michel. (Perhaps he was named after two different people, possibly two grandfathers?)

Yaakov is Jacob

Yechiel Michel is pronounced yeh-CHEE-ayl mich'l, with both ch's as in Chanukah or Bach.

Yechiel is a Hebrew name; Michel is Yiddish nickname for Yechiel.

Reb is an honorific; it does not mean rabbi. Eliezer is a Biblical name, pronounced eh-lee-EH-zer.

The 6th of Tamuz, 5676, began at sunset on July 6th, 1916, and ended at sunset on the 7th. The secular date on the stone is the 6th, which would indicate that he passed away between sunset and midnight of that date.

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