Why are there dots in the Hebrew letters? Originally published December 15-16, 2017
July 23, 2018
Those who have learned to read Hebrew (thankfully a phonetically pronounced written language) have been taught that a bet has a dot (a dagesh) in it, and without the dot it is a vet. Pe and fe are similar. (These letters interestingly follow Grimm’s Law - put forth by the authors of the fairy tales […]