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The rectangular tombstone has a slanted top and rests horizontally on the ground. It is inscribed with a rhymed Hebrew
epitaph chiselled in square letters in eleven lines, reads:

"איפה ישרים חכמים גם נבונים / נמס לב אנוש ונצרבו כל פנים / כי אנשי שם טוב ישבו 'במקום תנים' (תהלים מד:כ) / פה נטמן גדול הדור במסתר פנים' (מבוסס על תהלים קמג:ז; ישעיה נג:ג) / גבר הוקם על" (שמואל ב כג:א) צדיק שומר אמונים' (ישעיה כו:ב) / רב עצום לעדתו 'פאר זקנים' (מבוסס על משלי כוכט) / אם כי שאריתו תחת 'גל אבנים' (יהושע זכו; יהושע חוכט; שמואל ב יח:יז) / אך! עוד יוסף חי' (בראשית מה:כו) 'חסון הוא כאלונים' (עמוס ב:ט) / ה"ה (האדון המכובד) הרב הכולל כמוה'ר'ר (כבוד מורינו הרב רבי) יוסף / אברהם (ב)ן' חסון ז"ל (זכרונו לברכה) נ'ת'ב'ש'ם ('נתבקש בישיבה של מעלה' (בבלי, בבא מציעא, דף פו, ע"א); מת) יום ל' שבט / שנת ת'ר'מ'א' (641(5) ת'נ'צ'ב'ה' (תהי נשמתו צרורה בצרור החיים)."

Translation: "Where are the righteous persons, the wise men and clever?! A man's heart shall melt and all faces shall be burned (from the Lord's furnace), as men (who have) a 'good name' rest 'in the place of dragons' (Ps. 44:19; in the darkness of death). Here the outstanding Rabbi of the generation was buried (in a grave 'where the Lord) hid His face (from him)' (based on Ps. 143:7; Isa. 53:3). 'The man who was raised up on high' (2 Sam. 23:1), a 'righteous who keepeth the truth' (Isa. 26:2). A great Rabbi to his congregation, 'old men's glory' (based on Prov. 20:29), though his remnant is under 'a heap of stones' (Josh. 7:26; Josh. 8:29; 2 Sam. 18:17). Alas! 'Joseph is yet alive (Hai)' (Gen. 45:26), 'he is strong (Hasson) as the oaks' (Amos 2:9; see: Remarks: no. 1). (This is the burial tombstone of) the honourable master, the kollel's Rabbi, our honourable teacher, Rabbi Joseph Abraham Ben Hasson (son of Hasson), of blessed memory, who was summoned before divine justice (T.B. Baba Mezi'a 86:a; Euphemism: died) on the 30th of Shevat, (5)641 (30.1.1881 (Julian: 18.1.1881), may his soul be bound in the bond of life."

A scrolled medallion set on the right encloses illegible Hebrew letters.

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Tomb of Rabbi Joseph Abraham Ben Hasson, Jewish Cemetery in Karnobat | Unknown
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