Hi everyone. Sorry if this question has been discussed many times or
if everyone already knows the answer already but this is something
I've been wondering about for YEARS and I think you guys probably
know the answer...
Two transliteration things I see a lot are:
-Taf without a dagesh transliterated as "TH" as in "B'nai BriTH,"
"Temple BeTH Shalom" - I see this most often in names of older Jewish
organizations
-Bet without a dagesh transliterated as "B" as in "JacoB" (for my
name) - I see this a lot in "scholarly" and non-Jewish contexts
I've spent my whole life going to synagogues around the world as well
as speaking Modern Hebrew and I've never encountered anyone who
actually pronounces Hebrew this way ("...mekadesh eTH haShabbat?"
"Haaretz hayita tohu vaBohu?) so where does this transliteration come
from? Is there someone, somewhere, who actually would say "tohu
vabohu" or lisp his soft tafs?
THANK YOU,
Yakov Hadash.
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