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Category: Translation - Hebrew
Approval Date: 7/12/2026 9:04 PM
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Hoping for full or partial Hebrew text. Document is from Nick Levine, in the UK. He asked me to try to read it for him, and I'm out of my depth. Here's what I think I see: "Might be a tennai kiddushin. Bride's name may be Rachel. It's Hebrew, the script is elegant but hasty, and the subject is a wedding (habachur hahatan, bachupa and b'ahava jump out). It mentions kesef and k'dat Moshe v'Yisrael, but it's NOT in the nearly fixed legal form of words in Aramaic of a ketubah. Uses ha- prefix instead of -a suffix for "the" consistently. There appear to be 2 witnessing sigs, 2 other sigs (bride & groom?) and an officiant or recorder at lower right. I can't find a Hebrew date, though the last word tet-resh-squiggle-bet before sigs could just about be 5652 = 1891/2. (Tet-resh-nun-dalet = 1893/4, is an Israeli friend's reading, and he observes that po Vvyn is "here in Vienna"). Cheap paper, but perhaps carefully folded to carry close in difficult times?"

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7/13/2026 12:21 AM

This is a Tenoyim (prenuptial agreement) written upon engagement (some only write it right before the wedding).
Between the two parties.
Menachem Mendel Barenfreund representing his son the Chatan Eliezer HaCohen
Shmuel Zev'l Censor representing his daughter the Kallah Baila
Proposed wedding date is in the month of Kislev 5646 in Krakow
Signed in Vienna Sunday week of Shelach 5644
Signed by (3 sets signatures - 2 parties [parents], groom and bride & 2 witnesses)
Mendel Barenfruend
Shmuel Wolf Censor (Wolf is the Yiddish translation for the Hebrew name Zev)
Lazer Barenfruend (Lazer is a nickname for Eliezer)
Baila Censor
Alexander Zuskind Rosenfeld - witness
?? Kraum - witness

7/14/2026 9:28 AM

The bride is 'הכלה המהוללה מ' ביילע תחי
She is not named Kallah, the word with two ll is an adjective, meaning "illustrious".

I agree with the rest of reading.

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