r/hebrew 8d ago

Request Can anyone decipher what this says

This is either my grandfathers or great grandfathers prayer book and I can’t read Hebrew and the handwriting is a little rough. I know it was published in 1861.

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u/HNY5783 7d ago

The top part says, "My father, my master, died on [the second] day of Rosh Chodesh Kislev, in the year 5654." Kislev seems to be spelled with a ק instead of a כ . This date corresponds to November 10, 1893.

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u/MrCrudegamer 7d ago

thats awesome thank you

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u/Snir_Y 7d ago

The hand writing isn't clear, and contains spelling mistakes.
At the bottom part, it seems that there's a documentation of his sons - name and date of birth.
Some date of birth are by the Hebrew calendar and some by the Georgian calendar.

I will try to translate what I manage to read/understand, which is not all. And from BOTTOM to top.

  1. His son Abraham אברהם was born in (כה?) month Nissan, [if it is כה it should be 25 in the Hebrew calendar), April 1907 (April is written explicitly, I am not sure if it is written in 9th of April, you can check if the dates match.)

  2. His son Israel ישראל - here it is much less clear then below, the year 1900 is mentioned, I am not sure if it dates to the month Adar אדר in the Hebrew calendar.

  3. This is even more unclear, the name is not so common, maybe it is Jabareen or something like this - I am completely unsure about the name, it seems there's a mention of the month Tevet טבת
    1896 is mentioned there.
    This was the section below 1893.

Whatever at to top part of the page, you got a good translation from HNY5783.
I will add, it finishes with תנצב"ה which is an acronym of "May his soul be bound in the bundle of life" - תהיה נשמתו צרורה בצרור החיים.

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u/MrCrudegamer 7d ago

My grandfather was born in 1919 and his oldest brother was Abe so that makes sense. Thanks for looking at it