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Sephardi Hebrew (or Sepharadi Hebrew; Hebrew: עברית ספרדית, romanized: Ivrit Sefardit, Ladino: Ebreo de los Sefaradim) is the pronunciation system for Biblical Hebrew favored for liturgical use by Sephardi Jews.
The modern Hebrew calendar has been designed to ensure that certain holy days and festivals do not fall on certain days of the week. As a result, there are only four possible patterns of days on which festivals can fall.
On weekdays, this prayer ends with the words Shomer Amo Yisrael L'Ad.This is seen as appropriate for weekdays, when men go in and out in their weekday pursuits, and come in need of divine protection.
The Hebrew alphabet is a set of characters used in the writing of the Hebrew language.
The Tetragrammaton in Phoenician (12th century BCE to 150 BCE), Paleo-Hebrew (10th century BCE to 135 CE), and square Hebrew (3rd century BCE to present) scripts. The Tetragrammaton [note 1] is the four-letter Hebrew theonym יהוה (transliterated as YHWH or YHVH), the name of God in the Hebrew Bible.
A siyum on Tractate Ketubot.Rabbi Asher Arieli is seen third from left.. A siyum (Hebrew: סיום) ("completion"), in Judaism, occasionally spelled siyyum, is the completion of any established unit of Torah study.
Meteg is primarily used in Biblical Hebrew to mark secondary stress and vowel length.. Meteg is also sometimes used in Biblical Hebrew to mark a long vowel.While short and long vowels are largely allophonic, they are not always predictable from spelling, e.g. ויראו 'and they saw' vs. ויראו 'and they feared'.
The term gadol hador refers to the "great/est (one of) the generation" denoting one rabbi who is presumed to be even greater than the others. Other variations of the term are Gadol Yisrael or a Gadol BeYisrael (plural: Gedolei Yisrael), meaning "great one of the Jewish people".