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.”

Rabbi David Bashevkin, director of education for NCSY and an instructor at Yeshiva University (and Teaneck resident), has just authored a fascinating book. The creative

Seder: A word with this root appears only one time in Tanach, at Job 10:22 (sedarim). As we would expect, it means “order.” Karpas: This

The Mishnah in the 10th chapter of Pesacḥim includes a set of Ma Nishtana. If one opens a standard Babylonian Talmud (Pesacḥim 116a), one sees

In our Kiddush every Shabbat morning we recite the following phrase from Ex. 31:17: “For six days God created the heaven and the earth and

“Sanverim” (samech-nun-vav-resh-yod-mem) appears only three times in Tanach: at Genesis 19:11 and II Kings 6:18 (twice). The first is when the men who pressed Lot

Part III Haglah (2:6): exiled, caused to go away, from the root G-L-H. This root has two different meanings: “uncover/reveal” and “go away/emigrate.” An interesting

Nun-Shin-Kof is an interesting root because it has two different meanings: “kiss” and “military equipment.” Could these meanings be related? After all, the purpose of