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We Must Learn Ktav Ivri
Sefardic Panther:
The Torah was given to Mosheh Rabeinu written in Ktav Ivri (literally “Hebrew writing”). After the Babylonian exile Ezra changed the letters to Ktav Ashurith (literally “Aramaic writing”) the regular Hebrew letters that everyone today is familiar with.
I think it was when the hand wrote on the wall (which made king Belshatser dump in his pants) the hand wrote in Ktav Ashurith and the Yehudim adopted that alphabet as holy and later used it to write the Mishnah and all Sifrei Torah. Although Yehudi freedom fighters struggling against the romans minted coins in the original Ktav Ivri letters as a symbol of nationalistic revival.
I used the font “Aramaic Sans” (ironically named since the regular Hebrew font is infact Aramaic) in the unitype global writer to write all 22 letters of the Ktav Ivri alphabet.
Writing Toranic words in their original Ktav Ivri letters can reveal further meaning like gematria. For instance the Ktav Ivri Alef is an ox and implies strength and the Ktav Ivri Bet is a house. Thus Ktav Ivri reveals that the av is the “strength (of the) house”.
Kahane-Was-Right BT:
Interesting. I think the ktav ivri was always considered the regular writing, so people used that for documents, engravings, etc. But when the ktav ashurit was adopted, it was considered a holy writing so they did not use it for mundane things and that is why you will not see casual letters written in the block letter script from archaeological finds. It was reserved only for sifrei Torah, maybe ketubot, etc
Sefardic Panther:
I don’t think there are any books, lectures or dvds on the mystical significance of Ktav Ivri. But when it comes to Ktav Ashurith we are spoiled for choice and its usually claimed that the Torah was given to Mosheh Rabeinu in Ktav Ashurith. Although the Torah strongly implies that the original writing was Ktav Ivri and Talmud Bavli, Sanhedrin 21b says that Mar Zutra said the Torah was given to Mosheh Rabeinu in Ktav Ivri.
The unitype globel writer font above is not entirely accurate. Here is a better chart –
The Mogen Dawid is the 2 Ktav Ivri Dalets of the name DaWiD entangled.
One of the best orthodox Jewish websites has a good chart of the earliest form of Ktav Ivri –
http://www.chayas.com/hebrewpictorial.htm
Note the Kaf, it was no doubt the origin of the Hamsa.
Kahane-Was-Right BT:
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The Mogen Dawid is the 2 Ktav Ivri Dalets of the name DaWiD entangled.
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Wow, that's very interesting. Makes a lot of sense now too. People made up a lot of crazy theories about the magen Dawid that I always thought were baseless. This is probably the only sound explanation I've seen, and I'm willing to bet this is where it came from. Dawid is Daleth w' Daleth. Daleth and Daleth. The waw came to mean 'and.' So they put together the symbol out of that. Not out of pagan khazarian beliefs or whatever else lol.
muman613:
--- Quote from: Kahane-Was-Right BT on September 06, 2009, 04:29:06 PM ---
--- Quote from: Sefardic Panther on September 06, 2009, 11:49:52 AM ---
The Mogen Dawid is the 2 Ktav Ivri Dalets of the name DaWiD entangled.
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Wow, that's very interesting. Makes a lot of sense now too. People made up a lot of crazy theories about the magen Dawid that I always thought were baseless. This is probably the only sound explanation I've seen, and I'm willing to bet this is where it came from. Dawid is Daleth w' Daleth. Daleth and Daleth. The waw came to mean 'and.' So they put together the symbol out of that. Not out of pagan khazarian beliefs or whatever else lol.
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I know that you KWRBT use yemenese pronunciation... We pronounce it Vav, and it means And, and the name is DaViD...
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