We have all heard the story of this prayer and R. Amnon of Mainz in the 10th century. The story is found in the Or

This is a good time to discuss this all-important word. There are two issues involved: 1) What is the meaning of the root PLL? 2)

We have all recited this simple word thousands of times in our prayers. But what does it mean? To give you some background, it appears

This psalm begins: “la-menatzeach al ayelet ha-shachar mizmor le-David.” What is the meaning of “ayelet ha-shachar”? Rashi here gives four interpretations, and Radak gives five!

Reviewing: Bukharan Jews and the Dynamics of Global Judaism by Alanna E. Cooper, Indiana University Press, Paperback, 305 pages, 2012, ISBN-10: 0253006503. Did you ever

1. The word “nes” appears 21 times in Tanach in various forms. According to the Daat Mikra commentary on Ex. 17:15, in none of these

We all know the term “arei miklat.” The word “miklat” in various forms (miklat, ha-miklat, le-miklat, and miklato) appears 20 times in the Tanach, always

The Tanach has several words for stick: shevet, mateh, mishenet, and makel. What is the difference between them? Let us analyze the easiest one first,

Very often there are words in Tanach that did not originate in Hebrew and are foreign “loanwords.” Here I am going to discuss some of

This root has a few meanings in Tanach: the verbs “count,” and “tell a story,” and the nouns “sefer” (= letter or scroll), and “sofer”

Reviewing: “Maimonides’ Grand Epistle to the Scholars of Lunel,” by Charles Sheer. Academic Studies Press. 2019. English. Paperback. 100 pages. ISBN-13: 978-1618119612. One of the

Just to review, Golda was born in Kiev in 1898. She came to the U.S. with her mother and two sisters in 1906. They came