Rashi Script
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. Secondary religious texts, such as rabbinic commentaries, was, however, were commonly set with a semi-cursive form of Sephardic origin, ultimately normalised as ...
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Vaybertaytsh
''Vaybertaytsh'' () 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 Hebrew square script were used for classical texts in Hebrew and Aramaic, and "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 extant printed b ...
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Lamed (Rashi-script - Hebrew Letter)
Lamedh or Lamed is the twelfth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Hebrew Lāmed , Aramaic Lāmadh , Syriac Lāmaḏ ܠ, Arabic , and Phoenician Lāmed . Its sound value is . 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 a goad, i.e. a cattle prod, or a shepherd's crook, i.e. a pastoral staff. Hebrew Lamed Hebrew spelling: Pronunciation Lamed transcribes as an alveolar lateral approximant . Significance Lamed in gematria represents the number 30. With the letter Vav it refers to the Lamedvavniks, the 36 righteous people who save the world from destruction. As an abbreviation, it can stand for litre. Also, a sign on a car with a Lamed on it means that the driver is a student of driving (the Lamed stands for ', learner). It is also used as the Electoral symbol for the Yisrael Beiteinu party. As a prefix, it can have two purposes ...
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Yud (Rashi-script - Hebrew Letter)
Yud may refer to: *Yodh or Yud, the tenth letter of many Semitic alphabets *YUD, the IATA airport code for Umiujaq Airport in Quebec, Canada *YUD, the ISO 4217 three letter code for the Yugoslavian dinar See also *Yud-Alef Stadium The Yud-Alef Stadium ( he, אצטדיון הי"א, ''Etztadion HaYudAlef'', lit. ''The 11 Stadium'') is a football stadium in Ashdod Ashdod ( he, ''ʾašdōḏ''; ar, أسدود or إسدود ''ʾisdūd'' or '' ʾasdūd'' ; Philistine: 𐤀� ...

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 Apri ...
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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, Ch ...
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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 Zayin , Hebrew Zayin , Yiddish Zoyen , Aramaic Zain , Syriac Zayn ܙ, and Arabic Zayn or Zāy . It represents the sound . The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek zeta (Ζ), Etruscan ''z'' , Latin Z, and Cyrillic Ze З. Meaning The Proto-Sinaitic glyph may have been called , based on a hieroglyph depicting a "manacle". The Phoenician letter appears to be named after a sword or other weapon. In Mishnaic Hebrew, ' () means "sword", and the verb ' () means "to arm". In Modern Hebrew slang, ' () means "penis" and ' () is a vulgar term which generally means to perform sexual intercourse, although the older meaning survives in ' ("armed struggle") (), ' ("armed forces") (), and ' () ("armed, i.e., reinforced concrete"). Arabic zāy The letter is named . It has two forms, depending on its position in the word: The similarity to '   is likely a functio ...
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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 * 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 vavs or baori) are wells 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 7th to 19th century. So ...

He (Rashi-script - Hebrew Letter)
He or HE may refer to: Language * He (pronoun), an English pronoun * He (kana), the romanization of the Japanese kana へ * He (letter), the fifth letter of many Semitic alphabets * He (Cyrillic), a letter of the Cyrillic script called ''He'' in Ukrainian * Hebrew language (ISO 639-1 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) * Hesse, 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, and media * "He" ...
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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 Dālet 𐤃, Hebrew Dālet , Aramaic Dālath , Syriac Dālaṯ , and Arabic (in abjadi order; 8th in modern order). Its sound value is the voiced alveolar plosive (). The letter is based on a glyph of the Proto-Sinaitic script, probably called ''dalt'' "door" (''door'' in Modern Hebrew is delet), ultimately based on a hieroglyph depicting a door: O31 Phoenician The Phoenician dālet gave rise to the Greek delta (Δ), Latin D, and the Cyrillic letter Д. Aramaic Hebrew 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 Middle-Eastern background, especially in the Jewish diaspora. In some academic circles, it is called ''daleth'', following the Tiberian Hebrew pronunciation. It is also called ''daled''. The ד like the English D ...
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