Stone ID:

N26C

Location:

Wall of Memory

Grounded/Loose:

grounded

Intact/Fragment:

intact Group:

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Material:

Color: grey Dimensions W H D, cm:

Inscription Style:

incised letter

Inscription Character Height, cm:

Name Original:

אליעזר

Name English:

Eliezer

Surname Original:

Surname English:

Father Original:

שמואל אהרן

Father English:

Shmuel Aharon

Husband Original:

Husband English:

Gender:

male

Death Date Hebrew:

07-Tevet-5699

Death Date:

1938-12-29*

Age:

Birth Date:

Profession:

Primary Symbol:

crown

Epitaph Original:

Epitaph English:

here buried
a man reputable amongst men
taught in public the study of the Midrashim
his ancestry from proven holy lineage
he acted with faith, in a flawless and reputable manner,
elderly, and (was) the grandson of the 'holy of holies'
Rabbi Yehoshua of Dynów, the (most) illustrious of holy men.
Eliezer son of the late, acclaimed Rabbi
Shmuel Aharon, of blessed memory,
who 'departed to his world' on the seventh
of the month of Tevet (in the) year (5)699 'by the small count'
may his soul be bound in the bond of (eternal) life

Acrostic Original:

אליעזר

Acrostic English:

Eliezer

Additional Original:

Additional English:

Stone Condition:

excellent; traces of yellow/gold paint wash remain across the stone, and blue paint traces in a few of the incised characters

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

Recovery GPS:

Other Notes:

[N] The deceased was a grandson of the famous Rabbi Yehoshua of Dynów [who died in 1814]. A short biography of this Rabbi [Meir Wunder, 1992] claims that "his grandson, the venerable old man, the esteemed R. Eliezer Lesser of Dobromyl, spoke much of his grandfather and apparently met his death in the Holocaust". He was 'elderly' when he died as the gravestone records on line 6. Even if he was extremely so – this Eliezer of Dobromyl, who died in 5699/1938, could not have known Rabbi Yehoshua personally and he did not perish in the Holocaust. If the biography indeed refers to this grandson Eliezer [and his 'speaking of his grandfather' was actually via hearsay], he would have borne the surname Lesser.
[N] The name of the deceased Eliezer אליעזר which first appears on line 8, is preceded by an acrostic generated by the first, enlarged letter of each of the lines 2-7. As is often the case, the acrostic is accompanied by a rhyming feature. Thus ve'anashim, ha'midrashim, ha'kedoshim and mikdoshim [lines 2,3,6&7] rhyme; as do ha'meushar and ube'yosher [lines 4&5].
[N2] The translation is shortened – it reads literally 'a man reputable amongst mankind and men'. Perhaps the superfluous last word ואנשים was added to make the line rhyme with lines 3,6&7.
[N3] The word למד , were it vowelized, would be לִמֵּד rather than לָמַד ['limed' rather than lamad'] – i.e. imparted rather than received knowledge.
[N3] The Midrash is a vast corpus of rabbinic biblical text exegesis, stories and homilies [plural midrashim] particularly suited to study by laymen.
[N4] Yichus, Jewish 'pedigree', has been translated as 'ancestry'.
[N8] The abbreviation מו'הרר is an extended honorific which, to lend extra weight, is translated as 'acclaimed Rabbi'.
[N10] The phrase 'departed to his world' is a common euphemistic expression for 'died'.
[N11] 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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