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Headstone
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Here lies
The honorable and upright person
R. Nachum the son of R. Kutiel
Rabkin
Who Departed from all life*
5696 (1936)
May His Soul Be Bound Up in the Bonds of Life
* The phrase
may be found as
translated above in R. Alcalay “The Complete
Hebrew-English Dictionary”, Massada Press
Publishing Company, Ramat-Gan Jerusalem, p. 2531.
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Transcription
and Translation Copyright 2005 Rabbi Edward S. Boraz, Dartmouth
College Hillel.
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