Stone ID:

N16A

Location:

Wall of Memory

Grounded/Loose:

grounded

Intact/Fragment:

intact Group:

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Color: grey Dimensions W H D, cm:

Inscription Style:

incised letter

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Name Original:

רעכיל

Name English:

Rechil

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Father Original:

צבי

Father English:

Tzvi

Husband Original:

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Gender:

female

Death Date Hebrew:

08-Shevat-5691

Death Date:

1931-01-26*

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Primary Symbol:

5-arm candelabrum

Epitaph Original:

Epitaph English:

here buried
an elderly woman, modest
of women (who dwell) in tents most blessed
the lady Rechil daughter of [h]
Tzvi, died 8th Sh'vat
(in the) year (5)691 'by the small count'

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Stone Condition:

good; lower portion is lost, as is the top edge, both patched with concrete; traces of yellow paint remain in the epitaph border and the deceased's na

Conservation:

Recovered from a walkway behind the house at vul. Adama Mitskevycha 8 in downtown Dobromyl in March 2016, then installed in a newly-constructed Wall of Memory at the Dobromyl Jewish cemetery in May and June 2016; see the web page About Dobromyl for more information.

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Recovery Date:

2016-03-12

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Other Notes:

[N3] The phrase מנשים באהל תבורך – 'of women (who dwell) in tents most blessed' [Judges 5:24], is often encountered on female gravestones. These words of praise are totally removed from their biblical context, which refers to the heroine Yael bravely killing the enemy general Sisera by driving a tent peg through his temple as he sleeps.
[N4] Rechil is a Yiddish variant of רחל Rachel.
[N5] Could be the 5th Sh'vat – but more likely the 8th, given the more complete left leg of a chet ח than that of the adjacent hey of נפטרה, in the better of the two images of this gravestone.
[N6] The 3-letter abbreviation לפ'ק stands for לפרט קטן 'by the small count'. It often appears as a ligature, whereby these letters coalesce to form a single symbol. It confirms that the numeral 5 for 5000 is absent, it being obvious; a gravestone would have to predate the civil year 1239/40 for it to belong to the previous Jewish millennium.

See About Dobromyl for an index to headstone locations in the Wall of Memory.
Stone is recorded as Grounded because it is fixed in the Wall of Memory.

Last Revision:

2024-04-28

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