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Here are the next videos in our ongoing series on the forms of the Hebrew letters. After viewing these videos, please take a look at the bottom of this post for some Q&A on your Aleph-spotting skills…
Aleph Q&A
Here is an Aleph from a 350 year-old German Torah scroll:
In this scroll, all of the Alephs were written like this. There is a big difference between this Aleph and the accepted way of writing Aleph. Can you spot the problem? Does it need to be corrected?
Here is the name Achashveyrosh – the Persian king of the Book of Esther. Consider the Aleph which begins his name; is it Ksav Ari or Ksav Beis Yoseif?
As a special bonus, here is an excellent video of the letter Aleph being written by master sofer Avraham Borshevsky:
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