After Pinchas’ dramatic act, we are told that God declared (Numbers 25:12-13): “I grant him My pact of friendship. It shall be for him and

The Tanach tells us much about Omri’s son Ahab, as he had dealings with Eliyahu. But what about Omri himself? The Tanach (Kings I, 16)

A widespread understanding of the word חוק in traditional sources is that it is a law that we do not know the reason for, even

We all know the noun מלך (king). But what is the underlying verb here? Sometimes when the noun is fundamental, the noun precedes the verb.

The basic meaning of the noun רגל is foot. But several other words in Tanach derive from it. The verb רגל means “to spy,” because

This word appears 29 times in Tanach, all but one time in the plural. (The exception is Hoshea 5:8: “chatzotzrah.”) The most common spelling of

Rabbi Epstein was born in Belorussia, and studied in a traditional cheder. His intent was to follow in his father’s footsteps: work as a merchant

Psalms 137:5 reads: “If I forget you Jerusalem, tishkach yemini.” But what do the last two words mean? On the simplest level, “tishkach yemini” means

Regarding the discovery of Ugaritic, here is how one scholar tells the beginning of the story: “In the spring of 1928, a farm worker was

After my many decades of counting, it is time to deal with this issue. Let us first look at the Acharonim. This is straightforward. The

There are many streets named “Ruppin” in Israel. There are also many buildings named after him, such as one at Hebrew University. Who was he?