tav

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Based on this At-Bash system it was found that whichever day of the week the first (or aleph) day of Passover lands that will be the day that that the holiday starting with the last letter of the alphabet (tav) will land.

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  • (Hint: An acronym for the mitzvah is beis, tav, sin.) —  Vos Iz Neias - (Yiddish:What's News?)
  • Since then there have been a host of other distractions, including tav, questions about how thoroughly Mr. McCain vetted what people close to his campaign have called the last-minute pick of Ms. Palin, and charges from Mr. McCain's top aides that the news media have launched a sexist smear campaign against his running mate. —  TimesWatch Headlines
  • At the same time the word ot, written out, is a combination of the first and the last letters of the Hebrew alphabet, the aleph and the tav. —  Israelated - English Israel blogs
  • "In the beginning, God created" et hashamaim "a sign, (aleph tav, read as et or ot) the sky, and then" et ha'aretz "another sign, the Earth." —  Israelated - English Israel blogs
  • Darth Paul: Are you aware that there are TWO versions of tav? —  Queerty
 

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  1. Hebrew tāw, of Phoenician origin; see tww in Semitic roots.
 

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