The Story Of The Paleo Hebrew Birkonim / Bentschers At My Wedding
Channel: Daniel Rosehill
Date: 2022-05-11

Ahead of my wedding, to complement the Biblical theme, I decided to teach myself how to type in Paleo Hebrew (specifically a variant around at the time of the Second Temple). Typing in Paleo isn't that easy. There are fonts but no keyboard layouts available in Linux. I tried and failed to find ways to programatically swap out Ashurit characters from the standard Birkat HaMazon text with their equivalents in Paleo. After that failed, I ended up simply typing the whole thing by hand, which was a pretty painstaking process. 

The birkonim / bentschers were quite a talking point at my wedding, however, and I put the repository up on Github for anybody who might like to take the project further. My aspiration, one day, is to produce a full translinear siddur with both Ashurit and Ktav Ivri scripts.

Github repository:

https://github.com/danielrosehilljlm/PaleoHebrew

Paleo fonts for download:

https://www.bibleplaces.com/paleo_hebrew_fonts/ 

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