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Category: Translation - Tombstone
Approval Date: 7/4/2021 12:09 PM
Family Surname: Moses
Country: England
Town: London
Date of Image: 2021

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We're looking for a translation into English of the whole inscription if possible. In particular any reference to his wife and her father.

Response

7/4/2021 2:10 PM

I have never yet seen a gravestone of a man, on which his wife is mentioned. Occasionally, a deceased woman's husband's name is included, if he was an important member of the community.

Note that some of the letters are hard to make out. The following is my best reading.

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A monument

to the burial of a aged and good-hearted man,

the honored AVRAHAM son of Yosef

He passed away on Friday [there is a 'typo' here], the second day of Rosh Chodesh of Adar.

and was buried with honor on Sunday, the 3rd day of that month

of the year 5633

at the age of 75 years.

And his children, his family, and those who knew him mourned for him.

Few and unkind were the days of my life,

I was filled with bitterness, with grief and sighing,

Now the shadow of G-d will protect me from sorrow,

A place of joy and gladness, salvation and blessing.

May his soul be bound up in the bond of life.

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As mentioned, there is a typo in the day of the week on which Abraham died. The stone says Tuesday, but it was obviously Friday (the letter that represents Tuesday has a small piece on the bottom that distinguishes it from the letter that would represent Friday).

The "second day of Rosh Chodesh" -- Rosh Chodesh means the Head of the Month, also called the "New Moon" -- is always the the first day of the new month. In other words, he died on Friday, the 1st day of Adar. As there was probably not enough time to bury him before the onset of the Sabbath, and burials are not done on the Sabbath, he was buried on Sunday, the 3rd day of Adar.

The 1st day of Adar of the year 5633 began at sunset on February 27th, 1873, and ended at sunset on the 28th.

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