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Jewish people ... at least those who have learned to read ... read in the direction

in which the material they're reading was printed. For example, when reading

English, they read left to right. When reading Hebrew or Yiddish, they read right

to left. When reading traditional Mandarin, they read vertically. Etc.

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The Hebrew and Arabic languages, among others, are written and read from right to left. People who read those languages, regardless of their religious persuasion, read them from right to left.

Most Judaic languages (Hebrew, Judeo-Aramaic Yiddish, Ladino, Yevanic, and Judeo-Arabic) are written with the Hebrew alphabet. Since the Hebrew alphabet goes from right to left, the languages are read in that direction.

Most Jews also speak a vernacular language such as English, French, Spanish, Russian, or Arabic. With the exception of Arabic, most of the vernacular languages are read from left to right and, therefore, Jews read them from left to right.

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That is the structure (the system) of Hebrew. According to kabbalah (Jewish mystical teaching), right-to-left gives dominance to the spiritual aspect of kindness over that of severity.

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