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<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; white-space: normal; ">>What then do we say about our script font?</span></div>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal;">In the Rambam's opinion, the semicursive Hebrew which most people use to write it, was introduced in order to use it for divrei chol.</span></font></div>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal;">See here:</span></font></div>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal;">http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=1733&st=&pgnum=73</span></font></div>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal;">Interestingly, the Rema is of the opinion that the semicursive was introduced to write torah she-be'al peh, which is prohibited in square letters (!).</span></font></div>
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