We are fortunate that many different letters from Maimonides have survived. Here I am going to discuss my two favorites. Maimonides lived his early life
Reviewing: “The Grammar of God: A Journey into the Words and Worlds of the Bible,” by Aviya Kushner, 2015. 272 pages. Spiegel & Grau, ISBN-10:
Many of us are aware that the oldest complete Hebrew Bible is the Leningrad Codex, which dates to the early 11th century. It is currently
It is time to address some Nach and canon-related issues. The Talmud (Baba Batra 14b) lists 19 Nach books: eight in the Neviim and 11
Due to the positive feedback I received over the past two years (special shout-out to Michael Rapoport!), I decided to collect the best 60 of
Compared to some of our other prayers, the Hebrew in the daily Amidah is fairly straightforward. Nevertheless, there are some interesting words. I will now
Karpas: This word appears in the Tanach only one time, at Esther 1:6. There it means “fine fabric, linen.” In the Mishna, Tosefta and Talmud
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
Shavuot was the time that a portion of the first fruits were brought to the Temple for the priests, and Deut. 26:5-9 describes the prayer
I spent many years studying the period from 539-332 BC.E. This is the period when the Jews were subject to the rule of the kings
Since Parshat Zachor is upcoming, I thought it would be appropriate to deal with the root Z-C-R. I actually dealt with this topic before. (Do
We are all familiar with the four biblical fast days in Tishrei, Tammuz, Av and Tevet. We are also familiar with the post-Talmudic fast of
