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Name RIBA/RIVA in hebrew/yiddish. #names
Menachem Schreiber
My grandmother just passed away and she was called Riva.
On her grandmother's gravestone, it is spelled ריבא.
On her mother's gravestone, her mother's name is written ריווא.
It also has been written ריבה.
Does anyone know what the correct spelling is?
Menachem Schreiber
Israel.
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David Barrett
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Odeda Zlotnick
The correct Hebrew spelling is ריבה, pronounced Rivvah. --
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ריבה Reba is short for רבקה Rivka (Rebecca). It's common in Israel.
-- Yehoshua Sivan
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David Shapiro
In halacha, the standard spelling of names is outlined in the laws of gittin, where the correct spelling of names is crucial to the kashrus of the get. For the sound of 'v' the rule among Ashkenazim is that for names that are derived from languages other that Hebrew that sound is represented by two 'vov's. Such names also end with and 'alef' rather that a 'hei'. However, in 'Tiv Gittin' by Rabbi Ephraim Zalman Margolios, one of the main authorities on these laws, he states that Riva is short for Rivka, and thus it is consided a Hebrew name and is written with a 'veis' and ends with a 'hei' like Rivka.
David Shapiro Jerusalem
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lapid.ron@...
My wife's name is Riwa (pronounced RiVa). This is her English name given on birth in South Africa. Her Hebrew name is Rivka and she is named after her grandmother.
Ron Lapid, Ra'anana
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