Need assistance with translating Hebrew

February 24, 2011 | Self

[ExGeeEye]

Thanks :)

[JerseyHighlander]

As far as I know, almost every tomb in Maspeth was photographed digitally by 2005, and volunteers have logged all the data online.

http://www.jgsny.org/searchcity.htm

There is no lack of resources to follow up on this lineage:

http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/sadgura/ReischToronto.html

“Czernowitz Bukowinaer Lodge Society” goes by the name Czernowitz-Bukowinaer Lodge, Inc.,

Also, you will need to use fuzzy soundex searchs for “Schaefer” , my family is from the same region, there was a great confluence of languages used, each forcing the Jewish community to change the spelling as different empires rolled through the region. On top of that, Polish, Romanian, Ukrainian/Russian, Hungarian and Austrian German had drastically different and constantly evolving spelling constructs over the last three hundred years. ANd you have to deal with the Jewish/Yiddish “Sch” consonant being translated into each of those languages. My family name has at least 122 different spelling due to this.

[hosepipe]

This conversation is more interesting than the original question.. thanks to all involved..

[ExGeeEye]

In answer to your mail.

John 11:25-26, Jesus speaks: "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies [in the body]; and whoever lives and believes in me[, his soul] will never die [eternal death=hell].

Paul, writing from his imprisonment in Rome to the church at Corinth, notes with anticipation that the soul lives on after physical death:

We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. (2 Corinthians 5:8)

Jesus' resurrected body had properties not seen before its death.

He could appear to be another person, a friendly stranger, until He wished to reveal His identity:

Now that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem. They were talking with each other about everything that had happened. As they talked and discussed these things with each other, Jesus himself came up and walked along with them; but they were kept from recognizing him.

He asked them, “What are you discussing together as you walk along?”

They stood still, their faces downcast. One of them, named Cleopas, asked him, “Are you the only one visiting Jerusalem who does not know the things that have happened there in these days?”

“What things?” he asked.

“About Jesus of Nazareth,” they replied. “He was a prophet, powerful in word and deed before God and all the people. The chief priests and our rulers handed him over to be sentenced to death, and they crucified him; but we had hoped that he was the one who was going to redeem Israel. And what is more, it is the third day since all this took place. In addition, some of our women amazed us. They went to the tomb early this morning but didn’t find his body. They came and told us that they had seen a vision of angels, who said he was alive. Then some of our companions went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said, but they did not see Jesus.”

He said to them, “How foolish you are, and how slow to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Did not the Messiah have to suffer these things and then enter his glory?” And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself.

As they approached the village to which they were going, Jesus continued on as if he were going farther. But they urged him strongly, “Stay with us, for it is nearly evening; the day is almost over.” So he went in to stay with them.

When he was at the table with them, he took bread, gave thanks, broke it and began to give it to them. Then their eyes were opened and they recognized him...(Luke 24:13-31a)

(Emphases added) He could disappear and reappear at will:

...and he disappeared from their sight. (Luke 24:31b)

Our resurrection bodies will be like Jesus':

But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. (1 John 3:2b)

He could pass closed doors:

My second-shift lunch break is over. I would encourage you to read more for yourself.

[Brytani]

Thank you so much - I”m sorry it took so long for me to get back to you, I had back surgery Friday and was at the doctor for a follow-up today. And, took a long nap from the pain meds.

Thanks again!

[Brytani]

Thank you so much and for all the detail.

I’ve been trying to find their Hebrew names as well as parents names to go further into research into Romania.

Now, I’ve got to figure out - Abraham’s ships manifest lists him as Abrah Shrafer .Leib or Abrah Leib Shrafer.

Now I have plenty more to work with - thank you SO much

[Brytani]

On Shetlinks, I believe I found my GGrandfather as a student in 1892 at the Staats-Ober-Gymnasiums - Raditz, Bukovina

When I click on 1892, p2 there is a Abraham Schaffer listed under third class.

So far Schaefer, Schaeffer, Schoffer, Schaffer, Schöfer, Schäfer and many other variations have been on various papers, etc, making it more difficult to determine if the person is part of my family or not.

What I’ve learned so far on the Czernowitz Bukowinaer Lodge Society is they closed sometime in the 1950’s and rolled into a Bnai Brith group but have not yet narrowed which one down. I’d love to find the records as they should the family info for others who came over that I can’t find yet (like Abraham had a brother who lived in Boston - that’s all I have).