Stone ID:

S02B

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:

מרדכי

Name English:

Mordechai

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Surname English:

Father Original:

אהרן

Father English:

Aharon

Husband Original:

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Gender:

male

Death Date Hebrew:

23-Tishrei-5678

Death Date:

1917-10-09*

Age:

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Profession:

Primary Symbol:

blessing hands (Kohen)

Epitaph Original:

Epitaph English:

here buried
heart and soul 'spill' like water
for a man, flawless and respectable
who died in the prime of his life
(he) was in the war and was not 'disgusted'
by the king's food ration [...]
[...] Mordechai [...]
Aharon the Cohen, died on Simchat Torah
5678, from Brody, may his soul be bound in the bond of (eternal) life

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Stone Condition:

good, but with severe crack through epitaph, obscuring some 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

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Other Notes:

[N] Symbols are the 'priestly hands' motif, supporting a crown, indicating the grave of a Cohen.
[N4] Literally, as one would do with a flower, 'he was plucked in half his days'.
[N5] היה is slightly abbreviated to 'הי to avoid inscribing the divine name יה.
[N5-6] He fought in the Great War [later renamed WWI] and was 'not disgusted' by the king's food ration – פַּת בַּג הַמֶּלֶךְ [Daniel 1:5].
[N6-7] The 3-letter abbreviation at the end of line 6 defies satisfactory elucidation. Several hypotheses come to mind, all speculative. This is compounded by what text lies on both sides of the name Mordechai and the elusive 'son of' required to connect with the father's name on line 8. Furthermore, honorifics for both father and son are doubtless also present.
[N8-9] בשמ'ת is the abbreviation [בשמ[חת] ת[ורה 'on Simchat Torah', which falls on the 23rd Tishrei in the Diaspora.
[N9] From the famous, almost entirely-Jewish, town/shtetl of Brody – situated about 200 km east of Dobromyl.

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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