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If possible, the
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translation or history of the writing.
Headstone
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Here lies buried
A purse, endearing man
Woe Shlomo the son of R. Meir
Who departed on the 5th of Adar I
In the Year 5681 (1921)
The abbreviation
has other possibilities. The one
adopted here is simply “woe” or “alas”.
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Transcription
and Translation Copyright 2005 Rabbi Edward S. Boraz, Dartmouth
College Hillel.
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