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Rabbi Aaron L. Raskin
To aid the reader in pronouncing the transliterated Hebrew words that appear in this text, we have adopted the following rules:
a, e, o, u = the short pronunciation of the vowel
aa=“ah-ah” as in yaar, pronounced “yah-ar”
ai=long “i” as in zain, pronounced “zine”
ea=“ay-ah” as in the word meah, pronounced “may-ah”
ei=long “a” as in beis, pronounced “base”
i=long “e” as in min, pronounced “mean”
ch=a guttural sound made by forcing air through the closure formed by the back of the tongue against the palate, as in the words Chanukah and
chal lah.
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Terminology Alef — The Difference Between Exile andRedemption
RABBI AARON L. RASKIN
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