בערשאד — די שטאט פון רבי רפאל

Bershad — the town of Reb Raphael; his kever is at Tarashcha

Bershad · בערשאד

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Jewish cemetery, Bershad, Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine — the kever of Reb Raphael is at Tarashcha, Kyiv Oblast, about two hundred and twenty kilometres away

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The exact grave coordinates are not confirmed yet — go by the address and ask locally. We don't publish a coordinate we haven't checked.

1.REB RAPHAEL IS NOT BURIED IN BERSHAD, AND THIS PAGE USED TO SAY HE WAS. He lived here and founded the Bershader chassidus here, and the town carries his name — but he was niftar on the fourteenth of January 1827 at TARASHCHA, in Kyiv oblast, and he is buried there. It is about two hundred and twenty kilometres from Bershad and it is a separate journey.
2.HIS OHEL AT TARASHCHA WAS REBUILT IN 2003–2004 by Reb Meir Gabbai, and the kever is a place people come to, particularly around Rosh Hashanah.
3.WHAT IS IN BERSHAD is the town's own Jewish cemetery, and the coordinates below are its two surveyed grounds. Somebody tracing the Bershader chassidus will want the town; somebody coming to daven at his kever wants Tarashcha.
4.TWO GROUNDS, AND THIS LISTING WILL NOT CHOOSE BETWEEN THEM. ESJF surveyed both — the old cemetery at 48.35682, 29.53289 and the newer one at 48.35882, 29.54476, about 0.9 kilometres apart. No source found says which of them holds the kever this page is about, so no single map point is published. Ask locally before setting out, and take both coordinates with you.

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Closest airports

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Chișinău (KIV)Chișinău International· 166 km · 103 mi straight-line· regional
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Iași (IAS)Iași International· 194 km · 120 mi straight-line· regional
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Odesa (ODS)Odesa International· 233 km · 144 mi straight-line· regional
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Who is buried here

Known kevarim

רבי רפאל מבערשאד

Rabbi Raphael of Bershad

Reb Raphael Bershader

Yahrzeit: י״ז אייר · c. 5587 / 1827

The leading disciple of Rabbi Pinchas of Koretz; a byword for absolute truthfulness.

Verification

No public access contact has been verified for this cemetery yet.