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The intriguing picture above was taken when I visited the Jewish cemetery in my ancestral hometown. The ancient stone tablet dates back to the early 1600s. It contains the Bracha (prayer) that Jews say upon entering a graveyard. On the right side we find the Bracha inscribed in Hebrew, while on the left we read its exact translation in Old Spanish. The inscriptions are framed on both sides by straight lines, while the top is framed by semi-circular arcs, reminiscent of the two tablets carried by Moses, as imagined by most during the middle ages. Above the bilingual inscription we have the image of the skull with two crossed bones underneath, which today is recognized universally as the Emblem of Caribbean Pirates. What does a Jewish cemetery prayer have to do with Pirates???

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