Stone ID:

N19B

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:

משה מאיר

Name English:

Moshe Meir

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Father Original:

אהרן

Father English:

Aharon

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Gender:

male

Death Date Hebrew:

18-Iyar-5698

Death Date:

1938-05-19*

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Primary Symbol:

blessing hands (Kohen)

Epitaph Original:

Epitaph English:

here buried
a man flawless and reputable, he walked
the path of his ancestors (and) served God
[h] Moshe Meir son of [h]
Aharon the Cohen, died
33rd (day) in the Omer (in the) year 5698
may his soul be bound in the bond of (eternal) life

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Stone Condition:

good

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] 'God' is inscribed 'ד rather than 'ה, the standard abbreviation for Hashem השם [The Name]. Appearing only in writing, 'ד represents an even-higher level of 'distancing' than that provided by 'ה, but is nevertheless voiced 'Hashem'.
[N4] The 'ב of this abbreviation probably stands for 'son of'. The ה'מ' is an honorific.
[N6] The 'Counting of the Omer' commences on the second evening of Pesach [the second Seder in the Diaspora], each evening for seven weeks, the following day being Shavuot. The 33rd day is a 'minor festival' celebrated for the historic events that are traditionally-held to have occurred on this day. It is known as ל'ג בעומר, Lag Ba'Omer – Lag being the Hebrew pronunciation of the number 33. Usually, a person who died on this day will have this alternative Lag Ba'Omer inscribed on his/her gravestone, rather than the equivalent Hebrew calendar date which is the 18th of Iyyar.
[N6] The year 5698 appears as תרח'ץ [600+8+90] rather than the usual hundreds/tens/units format תרצ'ח [600+90+8], because the latter spells the Hebrew word for 'murder' or 'kill'. תרצ'ח was therefore often avoided on gravestones that year, throughout the Jewish world, for fear of 'the evil eye' עין הרע.

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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