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An acronym (Hebrew: ראשי תיבות, rashei teivot) is a shortened form of a phrase, usually consisting of the first letters of each word.
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Why was Rabbi Yitzchok Alfasi known as the Rif - rather than the Ria? (הרי"ף - רבי יצחק אלפסי)
Because "Alfasi" is really "al-Fasi". "Al-Fasi" is Arabic for "the Fezite" (Fez being the city in Morocco where he lived).
So kind of like how the word "of" gets swallowed in "USA", the word "the" g …
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Meaning of ודו"ק
I was once explained in Yeshiva that it can stand for ודייק ותמצא קל.
(After a little Googling, I found this)
(A little more Googling, and I found this and this)
Some of the things it might stand fo …
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