sentences:  The verbal pattern "itaphal" is Passive Causative.The language has received considerable scholarly attention, as shown in the Bibliography below.However, the majority of those who are familiar with it, namely Orthodox Jewish students of Talmud, are given no systematic instruction in the language, and are expected to "sink or swim" in the course of Talmudic studies, with the help of some informal pointers showing similarities and differences with Hebrew.