Talk:Zt"l

Double quote
Now I don't know diddly-squat about Hebrew, but I seriously doubt there's an actual double-quote sign (", %22) in the word. Shouldn't it be "Zt  l"''? How do I write a doubled single-quote sign without  , anyway?    &mdash; J I P | Talk 13:35, 18 May 2005 (UTC)

There absolutely is, what looks like a double-quote sign. In modern Hebrew acronyms are written with that sign before the final letter.

For example, here is how zatzal looks in Hebrew:

זצ"ל

as you can see, a google search of the term turns up 240,000 results. By contrast, without the " symbol less than 1000 are returned.

7-25-06


 * To amplify this response, the double-quote symbol is often used in Hebrew to indicate omitted letters, the way an apostrophe is in English to show a contraction. This is because a single apostrophe looks far too much like a yodh י.

-- Rpresser 18:28, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

z'l
I recently came across an obituary of a woman in which her brother and father's names were followed by z'l. Is z'l the same as zt '' l? — Reinyday, 02:50, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Yes there is a "
In Hebrew the symbol " is inserted to indicate a truncation of a phrase, because many Hebrew and Yiddish phrases are very long, the symbol " is inserted to indicate the phrase by simply spelling the first letters of the words in the phrase. So zt"l is stands for "zekher tzadik livrakhah" meaning "in memory of the righteous." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2604:2D80:4018:8116:9D26:85AB:B630:7719 (talk) 18:35, 18 April 2019 (UTC)