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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