- Q. In Hebrew, Is there a connection between the 3-dot triangle vowel “segol” and the feminine expression "segulah" meaning treasure?
A. One may say that in a sense since a segol can be indeed turned on all sides in some forms of printing, it may carry a symbolic special value of the Jewish nation, that can maintain their entity and devotion to Hashem and His Torah in many different ways and situations.
Some maintain that it is a reference to the three basic qualities of the Jewish nation . Namely they are defined by three character traits. We are rachmanim, bayshanim, v’gomlei chasadim, (merciful, bashful, and generous).
These attributes stem from our forefathers. Avraham signified chesed. Yitzchak, the pillar of yiras Hashem represented bayshanut-humbleness and bashfulness. Yaakov was merciful, a combination of din and chesed. These three middoth were passed down to the Jewish Nation.
(Yevamoth 89a).
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller, Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu and Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit'a.
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