A Tuesday TorahTutors Tidbit About Mixing Letters Up And Sorting Them Out
It was taught in a baraita: We don’t have the people of Beit She’an, nor the people of Beit Haifa, nor the people of Tivonin, lead services – because they pronounce alef as ayin and ayin as alef [and thereby distort the meaning of the prayers]. (B. Talmud 24b; translation based on the Steinsaltz version…