
Did Moses Have a Speech Impediment?
I wrote about this topic before, but in revising my article for my forthcoming book I came across a scholarly article that made me change
I wrote about this topic before, but in revising my article for my forthcoming book I came across a scholarly article that made me change
In the book of Isaiah, Chapter 6, the prophet has a vision in which he sees God sitting on a throne, with seraphim above him.
Last week, my column dealt with the recital of the Shema in the Musaf Kedusha. I wrote that various sources from the Geonic period had
I grew up using the Birnbaum Siddur. For years I stared at a line in its commentary about a prohibition of the recital of the
Although there are many theories, no one knows when and why the practice of the Haftarah was instituted. The ArtScroll Siddur includes the following statement:
Ve-higadeta le-vincha bayom hahu… (“You shall tell your son on that day”) is a key verse of the Seder night. But what exactly does vehigadeta
The background to the late 19th-century Jewish settlements in Israel was a wave of pogroms in Russia in 1881. This made most of Russian Jewry
Erev and boker are words that are well-known to us. But exactly how did they develop the meanings of “evening” and “morning”? The verb ayin-resh-bet
I spent many years researching this topic. It is time to keep everyone up to speed. Until the 19th century, a search in secular sources
Today, we pronounce the letter sin the same way as the letter samech. Was this always the case? And why do shin and sin share
As part of the Shema, we recite: ve-shinantam le-vanecha, ve-dibarta bam. But what exactly does that first word mean? From the context, we would expect
Although we are used to thinking of the Tanach as entirely Hebrew, sometimes words from other languages creep in. One of the languages that sometimes