The Balfour Declaration has been in the news recently. Palestinian officials announced that they are planning to sue Britain for the damages they suffered as
This is my third column in the Jewish Link on Aleinu. Two years ago, I wrote a column explaining that the original text in Aleinu
As we all know, Tehillim 145, which comprises the bulk of the Ashrei prayer, is missing a verse for the nun letter. Many scholars think
Many of us know the term chevlei mashiach. Although this term is not found in Tanach and is a later expression, the word chevlei (root:
My son Shaya just graduated from the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Yeshiva University. All of the graduates were given the book Bernard Revel: Builder
Some scholars have suggested that Hebrew words sometimes have two opposite meanings. I would like to closely examine this claim in the context of Biblical
A theme of the holiday of Shavuot is the number seven (i.e., seven weeks). A child of a friend once asked me if there was
Decades ago, I noticed that in the acrostics in the book of Eichah, the letter pe preceded the letter ayin in chapters 2, 3, and
The 33rd day of the Omer comes out on the 18th of Iyyar. When one looks at the sources prior to the period of the
Now is the appropriate time to discuss the root ayin, mem, resh, which is (hopefully!) on everyone’s mind nightly. The word omer appears in only
Herut The root H-R-T only appears one time in the Tanakh (Ex. 32:16) and means “engraved,” so we have to look elsewhere for the origin
Since it is the month of Adar, this is a good time to discuss the interesting root Z-Ch-R. As we all know, the letters zayin-
