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"We have always been here, we always will be here. The question for us today is 'beth nesa?' What is next?"

Then there is a legible beth, followed by a partially eroded, partially broken section with space for two letters, followed by a waw and an unclear letter.

One shape is roughly the Hebrew letter beth in reverse, another looks like an ornamental C, a third like a lowercase I in some early digital typeface.

Mr. Rapaport said that it was only to be expected that a judge would look unfavorably on someone who reneged on an original agreement, even if that agreement was signed in a beth din.

Armed with their arguments, the two pizza sellers appeared last month in rabbinical court, known as a beth din.