taw

In Jewish tradition

In Sefer Yetzirah it is the last of the seven double letters and is one of the letters made with the tongue.

Interpretation. Tradition treats the letters as the building blocks of the world, and each is grouped by where in the mouth it is spoken. Taw is also the last letter, ending the alphabet.

Meaning

Another way of spelling Tav, the last letter of the Hebrew alphabet. tree →

Examples

• Dalet-Tet-Lamed-Nun-Taw, with the tip of the tongue, serving with voice. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) tree →
• This is certainly an editorial error, confusing a Chet for a Taw. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) tree →
• The Samaritans still to this day preserve a tradition allowing Resh to occur in both single and double forms, bearing a distinction comparable to the difference between the Spanish single r of pero and double rr of perro.] Taw-Thaw. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) tree →

Note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.