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Submitted by Susan Meints Susan Meints Susan Meints

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Category: Translation - Tombstone
Approval Date: 7/7/2021 12:41 PM
Family Surname: Lane
Country: USA
Town: McMinnville, Oregon
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Hi, please help translate this tombstone. Thank you!

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7/7/2021 1:42 PM This is only part of a phrase, and it is one that I have never seen on a gravestone before.

It is the last three words of the six-word "Shema" prayer, whose entire text is "Shema Yisrael, Hashem Elokeinu, Hashem Echad", meaning "Hear, O Israel, G-d is our G-d, G-d is one.

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