Stone ID:

S08B

Location:

Wall of Memory

Grounded/Loose:

grounded

Intact/Fragment:

fragment Group:

Location X/Y:

Location GPS:

Material:

Color: grey Dimensions W H D, cm:

Inscription Style:

incised letter

Inscription Character Height, cm:

Name Original:

יחיאל

Name English:

Yechiel

Surname Original:

Surname English:

Father Original:

Father English:

Husband Original:

Husband English:

Gender:

male

Death Date Hebrew:

--

Death Date:

Age:

Birth Date:

Profession:

Primary Symbol:

crown

Epitaph Original:

Epitaph English:

here buried
he feared God all the days
benevolence he bestowed upon the indebted
his days of life ended in (physical) suffering
his love of justice and good deeds
to his children he left forever
[...]

Acrostic Original:

יחיאל

Acrostic English:

Yechiel

Additional Original:

Additional English:

Stone Condition:

fragmented, but good; traces of black paint remain in epitaph field

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.

ID Tag Poistion:

Recovery Date:

2016-03-12

Recovery GPS:

Other Notes:

[N] Nothing remains of the name or date of death. This laudatory section, lines 2-6, rhymes with a consistent mim, bim, bim, bim, mim beat. In favor of the first letter of line 6 [see N6] being a ל lamed ─ an acrostic is generated for the missing name יחיאל, Yechiel.
[N3] The literal 'he feared God' is a translation that is widely-accepted, meaning 'devout'. 'God' is inscribedד' rather than ה', the standard abbreviation for Hashemהשם [The Name]. Appearing only in writing, ד' represents an even-higher level of 'distancing' than that provided by ה', but is nevertheless voiced 'Hashem'.
[N5-6] לבניו here is a possibility, being somewhat legible in one of the images. The two lines taken together may be interpreted in several ways, each of which has its drawbacks. They have therefore deliberately not been punctuated.

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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