 Hey guys welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosell today recording this video on day two of my cold. I took a COVID test yesterday and it came back negative. So I guess this is just like a super heavy cold. So this is me with a husky cold voice. Maybe it would be a good day to do a podcast. Anyway what I wanted to show in this video is a project that I think is pretty interesting. I want to do a few videos because so there's like so few people interested in the subject of Paleo Hebrew and I really find it fascinating. The TLDR as they say in internet speak is that the Hebrew font we know today is actually something called Ashurit the Black Hebrew font but that's not always been the way Hebrew was written. Back in the day of the Bible the Hebrew font went through a succession of different fonts and I'll talk about it in another video how to how to that you can download some of those to your computer and play around with typing in them etc. Now I want to show you guys a specific project from my which is why I'm on my github. I've gone a bit crazy with adding them so just take me a second to here here we go Paleo Hebrew. If I may say so I think this is a pretty interesting project. So Paleo Hebrew went through several variations. Now this isn't really traditional because from what I've read and I'm not a historian but from what I've read on the internet it was never really used for the turgical. In other words for prayer use this was before Hebrew was written as well in common practice or the liturgy the prayer was commonly committed to texts and when it was it was done in Ashurit and during the time in ancient Israel when Ashurit and what we call nowadays in Hebrew could have every or the various iterations of Paleo Hebrew were in existence the Paleo font was used for more day-to-day stuff that's my understanding. Now you will see the only people who really know about this Paleo Hebrew font these days are archaeologists really because when you go digging up stuff in Hebrew you find stuff in Paleo and I believe if I'm not mistaken that the one shackle coin still bears Shekel written in Paleo. Anyway what I wanted to show you guys is this repository and why it matters if you're interested in Paleo. So firstly this is because obviously it's hosted on GitHub this is completely open source anyone is welcome to download it. Now what these are I got married almost three years ago and before the wedding I decided I wanted to have a really biblical theme to the wedding because I'm so interested in all this stuff so I produced my own Berkonim Grace After Meals in Paleo Hebrew. This may be the first time if not in history because the form of the standardization of the of the Berkats Amazon Grace After Meals came after I believe the XL but I may be wrong rabbis and historians can correct me but I certainly couldn't find any in bookstore so I made my own. So what I did I firstly learned Paleo Hebrew and then now I'll talk about the pitfalls of writing in Paleo in another video but basically the pitfalls are that you can't just switch to a Paleo font especially if you use Linux I use Linux as I've mentioned many times so you can't just like install the font and learn where the keys are so what I ended up doing was downloading not not a keyboard layout but an actual font and physically typing. The other part of the story is that before my wedding while I was doing this and trying to teach myself Paleo and make my little Paleo and I try to do this like programmatically right I try to find a way to like if you take the shin in Paleo this is uh sorry this is why my Paleo's gone rusty. Ah I know this word Baruch it's gone really rusty Baruch I think is that a bit uh maybe this wasn't the best idea to try to refresh my one-year-old um knowledge of Paleo while I'm sick but um anyway this is it so that the the key tour as I say in modern Hebrew is that when I produced these because there was so much craziness going on in my life I didn't have a chance to proofread it so there's a good chance so I had to actually type this by hand I literally had to type the entire Burkats on my zone because I tried and failed to find a way to do it like through a find replace kind of a situation. I can still remember parts but right now I'm really rusty. Anyway the point about this is this is a pdf render and I'm just going to show you guys what I want to put up on the screen um I have in this folder that the the project's called Paleo Hebrew um I attached some resources here so so these aren't mine the ttf font so you can download the true type font to type in Paleo and this is a paleo keyboard map so basically the and there's there is a windows layout that's what I'm going to cover in a second video there is someone has made a actual keyboard layout in windows and they try to match the actual current keyboard Hebrew keyboard for example like if memory serves this is a lamed well I know I've really forgotten it anyway they try to the best of their knowledge I think this is a hit um I think I'm right over that I think this is a shin this is definitely a Dalit because I remember my initials were Dalit Dalit I should say really Dalit race Dalit here race here and they look quite similar um but uh if you're just installing the font they've they've tried to be logical by uh you know where the equivalent letters are modern Hebrew by mapping those there so just want to show you guys what else is in the repo my reddit my my reddit my github username is danielrosiljlm so feel free to just go in fork this download it do whatever you want with it wow I went I went I went I went I went all out on this this is a couple of years since I've been in this repo it's two years actually almost so um in the birkwaneme section you will find the pdf rendered version if you use open office there is an open office file just of paleo there's one with paleo and Hebrew separated and there's one of odt so for instance in this file paleo paleo Hebrew separated uh we can see we have firstly the modern Hebrew baruch atah and you can see this word or no dah lecha so I can see I can yeah I can remember bits of it baruch atah yud yud um I'm gonna have to do an hour's refresh so there's that file and finally there is the benchers themselves I encourage anybody who's interested in this madness oh yeah so this is what we actually ended up printing for the wedding and again I didn't have time to prove for this but this actually might be useful if you want to learn if you want to learn paleo for example baruch atah yud yud baruch atah yud yud elohenu elo hey yud nun vav vav is like a peg melech mem lamik lamid kuf ha olam ha oh this is an ein lamid something there's an extra letter I think mem sofit no ha oh ein vav lamid mem so whether you're learning paleo Hebrew font for the first time and by the way archaeologists can still read this because when you're doing digs in Hebrew you find stuff in paleo um I'll do another video on the different iterations of the paleo Hebrew font um it went through different fonts starting from the very hieroglyphic one at the first temple then it came in more standardized very similar to Phoenician um and I wanted to just end this video by showing you guys a couple of photos of the actual benchers we ended up printing my wedding they were printed in Jerusalem in the very sadly now closed ABC print it was a wonderful print shop and they did a terrific job my wife is an architect and she's very creative and artistically minded and she designed the cover art I did this and we printed off them for the wedding apparently among our little group of friends in Jerusalem they're kind of collectuous items but I just want to show you I wanted to show off this project because I think for those interested in paleo it was pretty interesting and this video was the with the clips of the paleo sidurim there are about probably I think 300 of them out there in the world in circulation and my aspiration and this is really an aspiration it's true is to firstly relearn the paleo alphabet and secondly to produce an actual entire sidur written in a combination of ashurit and paleo like I've done here kind of an interlinear version like art scroll do with the English sidurim thank you guys for watching I'll put up the videos now and if you want to get more videos feel free to subscribe