Tav
We've reached the last letter of the Alefbet!
The letter 
(Tav) has a twin born without a dot:
.
We'll use the Israeli pronunciation here and consider them to be two versions of the same letter, both pronounced like the letter T.
We'll imagine that
looks like a tooth! Let's picture a guy with just one ENORMOUS tooth shaped like a Tav!
Now let's try some reading practice again.
(emet) - truth!
(ot) - a letter of the Alphabet, or a sign.
(todah) - Thanks!
(beitsah) - Means
egg!
(tsom) - Means a
fast in the sense of
not eating for a long time.
(oniyah) - Ship!
(matzah)
- The famously dry, crunchy cracker-like bread
that Jews eat each year for eight days!
(tsoharayim) - noon!
(pesach)
- Passover, the holiday where Jews eat matzah!
(lach) - to you (to a girl)
(gal) - Means
wave.
(mivtach) - Means
Confidence.
(negev) - Means
south.
(be'ahavah)
- With love!
This concludes the letters of the Alephbet! That means...
Tav, Taf, Sav, Saf, Taw...
The Hebrew letter Tav is another part of the Alefbet that
can cause some confusion. For starters, although Israeli and
Sephardic Jews (eg. the communities whose ancestors came through countries such as Spain, Portugal and Morocco) pronounce both
and
with a T sound, others pronounce it differently.
Ashkenazic Jews pronounce the one without a dot like an S and call it "Sav" which might be closer to the original pronunciation from ancient times, which is believed to have been something like the TH sound in bath or moth. But for that matter, even in ancient times we know people spoke Hebrew with different accents.
Similarly, there's some variation in how people believe the
at
the end of the letter's names should be pronounced.
Technically it's pronounced with a V sound, but often so
softly that it sounds more like an "F" sound--leading to the
letters being pronounced more like "Taf" and "Saf."
On the other hand, some scholars believe that the original
sound of vav might have been closer to a U or W sound,
leading to names like "Taw" and "Tau."
