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

Part I We have a book in our shul library: “My Life,” an autobiography by Golda Meir. I thought it would be interesting to summarize

Reviewing: “The Biblical Maimonides (Exodus): The Writings of Moses Maimonides Arranged According to Torah Verses,” by Alec Goldstein. Kodesh Press. 2019. English. Paperback. 506 pages.

Today, all synagogues throughout the world read the same parshah every week. (Of course, there are brief periods where the Jews in Israel get ahead

Hebrew has a root Y-R-H. It means to “proclaim/instruct.” This is the root of the word TORaH. (In the noun form of Y-R-H, the “yod”

Psalms 137:5 reads: “If I forget you, Jerusalem, tishkach yemini.” But what do the last two words mean? Note that that second to last word

At Lev. 25:10 we are told: “[This year] shall be a ‘yovel’ to you. You will each return to your land….” What is the meaning

When words have the same three-root letters, our initial assumption should be that the words are related and our task should be discover the relationship.

At the splitting of the Yam Suf, the root that the Torah uses to refer to the splitting is bet-kof-ayin. See Exodus 14:21: “va-yivaku ha-mayim.”