 An alternative method found in old manuscripts and still found on modern-day tombstones is to put a dot above each letter of the number.In print, Arabic numerals are employed in Modern Hebrew for most purposes.Hebrew numerals are used nowadays primarily for writing the days and years of the Hebrew calendar; for references to traditional Jewish texts (particularly for Biblical chapter and verse and for Talmudic folios); for bulleted or numbered lists (similar to "A", "B", "C", "etc.