Daily AncestorShabbat candlesticks
Shabbat candlesticks on a Jewish gravestone usually mark a woman, honoring her role in lighting the Sabbath and holiday candles.
Lighting candles to welcome the Sabbath and holidays is traditionally a woman's role in a Jewish home, so carved candlesticks or a candelabrum often decorate women's stones.
A seven-branched lampstand is more likely the Temple menorah, which is not tied to women. The candlesticks honor her place in keeping a Jewish home; read the inscription for her own name and family.
As seen in a recordJewish cemetery, 1880 to 1960
Pair of lit candlesticks above the Hebrew: Here lies the modest woman Rivka daughter of Aharon, Rebecca Goldfarb, 1862 to 1931
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