Rashi Script
The Rashi script or Sephardic script () is a typeface for the Hebrew alphabet based on 15th-century Sephardic semi-cursive handwriting. It is named for the rabbinic commentator Rashi, whose works are customarily printed in the typeface (though Rashi himself died several hundred years before the script came into use). It was taken as a model by early Hebrew typographers such as Abraham Garton, the Soncino family and Daniel Bomberg in their editions of commented texts (such as the '' Mikraot Gedolot'' and the Talmud, in which Rashi's commentaries prominently figure). History The initial development of typefaces for the printing press was often anchored in a pre-existing manuscript culture. In the case of the Hebrew press, the tradition of using square or block letters were cast for Biblical and other important works prevailed. However, secondary religious texts such as rabbinic commentaries, were commonly set with a semi-cursive form of Sephardic origin, ultimately normalised ...
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Vaybertaytsh
''Vaybertaytsh'' (, i.e. ) or ''mashket'' (), is a semi-cursive script typeface for the Yiddish alphabet. From the 16th until the early 19th century, the ''mashket'' font distinguished Yiddish publications, whereas the Hebrew square script was used for classical texts in Hebrew and Aramaic, and the "Rashi" script for rabbinic commentaries and works in Ladino. ''Mashket'' was used for printing Yiddish in the Old Yiddish literature period, and later as the primary script used in texts for and by Jewish women, ranging from folktales to women's supplications and prayers, to didactic works. Description Unlike Yiddish block or square print (the script used in modern Hebrew, with the addition of special characters and diacritics), ''vaybertaytsh'' is a semi-cursive script, akin to the "Rashi" script. ''Vaybertaytsh'' may be handwritten or typed. History ''Mashket'' originated as a typeface imitating the Ashkenazic semi-cursive used for both Hebrew and Yiddish. The earliest ...
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Lamed (Rashi-script - Hebrew Letter)
Lamedh or lamed is the twelfth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Hebrew ''lāmeḏ'' , Aramaic ''lāmaḏ'' 𐡋, Syriac ''lāmaḏ'' ܠ, Arabic ''lām'' , and Phoenician ''lāmd'' 𐤋. Its sound value is . It is also related to the Ancient North Arabian 𐪁‎‎‎, South Arabian , and Ge'ez . The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Lambda (Λ), Latin L, and Cyrillic El (Л). Origin The letter is usually considered to have originated from the representation of an ox-goad, i.e. a cattle prod, or a shepherd's crook, i.e. a pastoral staff. In Proto-Semitic a goad was called *''lamed''-. Arabic lām The letter is named لام . Orthography Its form depends on its position in the word: Grammatical functions has functions as a grammatical particle when used as a prefix: * Prepositional () * of ownership () * of association () * of purpose () * of absolute negation () * Imperative () * of affirmative emphasis () (, ) is essentially a preposit ...
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Yud (Rashi-script - Hebrew Letter)
Yud or YUD may refer to: *Yodh or Yud, the tenth letter of many Semitic alphabets *Umiujaq Airport (IATA airport code YUD), Umiujaq, Quebec, Canada * Yugoslavian dinar (ISO 4217 currency code YUD), the currency of Yugoslavia *Judeo-Tripolitanian Arabic (ISO 639 language code yud), a dialect of Arabic spoken in Israel and Italy *Eliezer Yudkowsky, sometimes called Yud online, a writer and researcher on decision theory and artificial intelligence See also *Yud-Alef Stadium The Yud-Alef Stadium (, ''Etztadion HaYudAlef'', lit. ''The 11 Stadium'') is a football stadium in Ashdod, Israel, that was built for local football sides Maccabi Ashdod, Beitar Ashdod (both merged in 1981 to form Maccabi Ironi Ashdod) and Hapo ...

Tet (Rashi-script - Hebrew Letter)
Tet or TET may refer to: Vietnam *Tết or Tết Nguyên Đán, the Vietnamese new year, Lunar new year *Tet Offensive, a military campaign during the Vietnam War that began in 1968 **Tet 1969 Geography *Têt (river) in Roussillon, France * Tét, a town in Hungary *Tét District, a district in northwestern Hungary Character, symbol, abbreviation, or acronym *Tet or teth, tēth, or Ṭāʾ, a Semitic abjad character *tet, the ISO 639-2 code for Tetum *Equal temperament, abbreviated as 12-TET, 19-TET, and so on * Teacher Eligibility Test, a teachers' entrance test *Tet methylcytosine dioxygenase 1, or TET1, an enzyme * Tetrachloride *Tetrahedron *Tetralogy of Fallot Art, entertainment, and media * ''Tet'' (Morris Louis painting), a 1958 painting *Tet, enormous tetrahedral space station from the 2013 film '' Oblivion'' * TET (TV channel), a Ukrainian TV channel *Tet, a god in the light novel ''No Game No Life'' *The name of Latvian telecommunications provider Lattelecom since Ap ...
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Het (Rashi-script - Hebrew Letter)
Het or HET may refer to: Science and technology * Hall-effect thruster, a type of ion thruster used for spacecraft propulsion * Heavy Equipment Transporter, a vehicle in the US Army's Heavy Equipment Transport System * Hobby–Eberly Telescope, an instrument at the University of Texas McDonald Observatory * Human enhancement Technologies, devices for enhancing the abilities of human beings * Heterozygote, a diploid organism with differing alleles at a genetic locus; see zygosity * Hexaethyl tetraphosphate, in chemistry * HET acid, alternate term for Chlorendic acid Other uses * Hét, a village in Hungary * Het peoples, or their language * Heterosexuality, sexual attraction to the opposite sex * ''HighEnd Teen'' (2008–2017), a former Indonesian magazine * Historical Enquiries Team (2005–2014), a former unit of the Police Service of Northern Ireland * Holocaust Educational Trust, a British charity * HET, IATA code for Hohhot Baita International Airport, in Inner Mongolia, China ...
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Zayin (Rashi-script - Hebrew Letter)
Zayin (also spelled zain or zayn or simply zay) is the seventh letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician ''zayn'' 𐤆, Hebrew ''zayīn'' , Aramaic ''zain'' 𐡆, Syriac ''zayn'' ܙ, and Arabic ''zāy'' . It represents the sound . It is also related to the Ancient North Arabian 𐪘‎‎, South Arabian , and Ge'ez . The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek zeta (Ζ), Etruscan ''z'' , Latin Z, and Cyrillic Ze З, as well as Ж. Origin The Proto-Sinaitic glyph may have been called , may not have been based on a hieroglyph, and may have depicted a "fetter". An alternative view is that it is based on the " copper ingot" hieroglyph ( 𓈔) in the form of an axeblade, after noting that the name "zayin" has roots in Aramaic to refer to "Arms," "Armor," and " Metal used for arms."Cross, F. M. (1980) Newly Found Inscriptions in Old Canaanite and Early Phoenician Scripts. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, 238, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.2307/13 ...
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Vav (Rashi-script - Hebrew Letter)
Vav or VAV may refer to : Places * Vav, Gujarat, a city and taluka in Gujarat * Vav State, a princely state in Banas Kantha (Kathiawar) named after its above capital * Vav (Vidhan Sabha constituency), Gujarat Other * Vote-Antivote-Vote, a variant of ThreeBallot * Vav (letter), a Semitic letter * Vav (protein) * VAV (band), a South Korean boy band * Variable air volume, used in HVAC systems * Varli language (ISO 639 code: vav), a language of India * ''Victor and Valentino'', Cartoon Network's animated television series * Vis-à-vis (other) * Stepwell Stepwells (also known as vav or baori) are wells, cisterns or ponds with a long corridor of steps that descend to the water level. Stepwells played a significant role in defining subterranean architecture in western India from the 7th to the ...

He (Rashi-script - Hebrew Letter)
He or HE may refer to: Language * He (letter), the fifth letter of the Semitic abjads * He (pronoun), a pronoun in Modern English * He (kana), one of the Japanese kana (へ in hiragana and ヘ in katakana) * Ge (Cyrillic), a Cyrillic letter called ''He'' in Ukrainian * Hebrew language (ISO 639-1 language code: he) Places * He County, Anhui, China * He River, or Hejiang (贺江), a tributary of the Xi River in Guangxi and Guangdong * Hebei, abbreviated as ''HE'', a province of China (Guobiao abbreviation HE) * Hessen, abbreviated as ''HE'', a state of Germany People * He (surname), Chinese surname, sometimes transcribed Hé or Ho; includes a list of notable individuals so named * Zheng He (1371–1433), Chinese admiral * He (和) and He (合), collectively known as 和合二仙 ('' He-He er xian'', "Two immortals He"), two Taoist immortals known as the "Immortals of Harmony and Unity" * Immortal Woman He, or He Xiangu, one of the Eight Immortals of Taoism Arts, entertainment ...
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Daled (Rashi-script - Hebrew Letter)
Dalet (, also spelled Daleth or Daled) is the fourth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician ' 𐤃, Hebrew , Aramaic ' 𐡃, Syriac ' ܕ, and Arabic (in abjadi order; 8th in modern order). Its sound value is the voiced alveolar plosive (). It is also related to the Ancient North Arabian 𐪕‎‎, South Arabian , and Ge'ez . The letter is based on a glyph of the Proto-Sinaitic script, probably called ' (''door'' in Modern Hebrew is delet), ultimately based on a hieroglyph depicting a door: O31 Arabic ''dāl'' The letter is named (), and is written in several ways depending on its position in the word: The letter represents a sound. Phoenician The Phoenician dālet gave rise to the Greek delta (Δ), Latin D, and the Cyrillic letter Д. Aramaic Hebrew dalet Hebrew spelling: The letter is ''dalet'' in the modern Israeli Hebrew pronunciation (see Tav (letter)). ''Dales'' is still used by many Ashkenazi Jews and ''daleth'' by some Jews of Mi ...
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