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Headstone
210
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Here lies
An important woman
Who provided sustenance to the poor
[with clothing?] Mrs. Shainah Kailah the daughter of our
Rabbi
our teacher our Rabbi Shlomo who departed on the 26th of
Tishrei in the year
5646 (1886) may her soul be bound in the bonds of life.
 is an abbreviation of the era for
 (without
mentioning the “heh” for 5,000), which means “May her soul
be bound in the bonds of eternal life.”
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Transcription
and Translation Copyright 2005 Rabbi Edward S. Boraz, Dartmouth
College Hillel.
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