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Excerpt from Kethoneth Yoseph: A Hand-Book of Hebrew Abbreviations, With Their Explanations in Hebrew and English, for the Use of Students of the Oral Law and Rabbinical Literature OF all literatures, the Hebrew is, I think, the most difficult to master. Its student has to surmount numerous obstacles before he can acquire any degree of freedom with the idiom and 'the phraseology of its language. Except the Holy Scripture and the Liturgy, almost all Hebrew works are printed in Rabbinical round characters, and these, too, without any vowel-points. It is well known that words of this kind can be read in several ways consequently the student has with great difficulty to make out the true reading and sense of such words from the context. Again, the language in which most Hebrew works are written, though generally it goes under the common name of Hebrew, presents certain diversities of dialect and style. But the greatest difficulty is the short and abbreviated forms of certain words and phrases, and the names of Rabbies, and their works; which, again, are not used by every writer in the same uniform way. As every author is at liberty to contract any words or phrases he likes, the student is often utterly at a loss. Buta good writer who coins any new abbreviations, uses the original words and phrases first in their complete forms before using their contractions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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