H: A Tale of Two Totafot

D: On the mysterious and much debated origins of a seminal Biblical term

By Stanley Dubinsky and Rabbi Hesh Epstein

Acknowledgement

Thanks for comments on a draft of this article are due to Jarrod Tanny [University of North Carolina – Wilmington]
and the editors of the journal Lerhaus. Thanks, as well, for insights into the modern use of taftaf in Egyptian Arabic
are due to Amenah Salman [University of South Carolina, personal communication]. Errors remain our own.

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