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  2. Mathers table - Wikipedia

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    Mathers Table from the 1912 edition of The Kabbalah Unveiled.. The Mathers table of Hebrew and "Chaldee" letters is a tabular display of the pronunciation, appearance, numerical values, transliteration, names, and symbolism of the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet appearing in The Kabbalah Unveiled, [1] S.L. MacGregor Mathers' late 19th century English translation of Kabbala Denudata ...

  3. Jewish symbolism - Wikipedia

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    The Star of David, a symbol of Judaism as a religion, and of the Jewish people as a whole. [1] It also thought to be the shield (or at least the emblem on it) of King David. Jewish lore links the symbol to the "Seal of Solomon", the magical signet ring used by King Solomon to control demons and spirits. Jewish lore also links the symbol to a ...

  4. Hebrew alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The Hebrew alphabet (Hebrew: אָלֶף־בֵּית עִבְרִי, Alefbet ivri), known variously by scholars as the Ktav Ashuri, Jewish script, square script and block script, is a unicameral abjad script used in the writing of the Hebrew language and other Jewish languages, most notably Yiddish, Ladino, Judeo-Arabic, and Judeo-Persian. In ...

  5. Hebrew cantillation - Wikipedia

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    The musical motifs associated with the signs are known in Hebrew as niggun or neginot (not to be confused with Hasidic nigun) and in Yiddish as trop (טראָפ): the word trope is sometimes used in Jewish English with the same meaning. There are multiple traditions of cantillation.

  6. Category:Jewish symbols - Wikipedia

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    Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons; Wikidata item; Appearance. move to sidebar hide. Help Subcategories. This category has only the following ...

  7. Yiddish orthography - Wikipedia

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    Although the Yiddish punctuation mark is termed an אַפּאָסטראָף (apostrof) the character used to represent it is the Hebrew geresh, which differs both in its graphic appearance and, more importantly, in its digital representation. (The APOSTROPHE is U+0027, and the HEBREW PUNCTUATION GERESH is U+05F3.) What is termed a double ...

  8. Sheikh - Wikipedia

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    Sheikh (/ ʃ eɪ k, ʃ iː k / SHAYK, SHEEK, [1] Arabic: شَيْخ, romanized: shaykh, commonly, plural: شُيُوخ, shuyūkh) [a] is an honorific title in the Arabic language, literally meaning "elder". It commonly designates a tribal chief or a Muslim scholar. Though this title generally refers to men, there are also a small number of ...

  9. Tree of life (Kabbalah) - Wikipedia

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    Although the earliest extant Hebrew kabbalistic manuscripts dating to the late 13th century contain diagrams, including one labelled "Tree of Wisdom," the now-iconic tree of life emerged during the fourteenth century. [6] The iconic representation first appeared in print on the cover of the Latin translation of Gates of Light in the year 1516. [7]