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-

Every Shabbat morning before the prayer Yishtabach, we recite the phrase: le-hodot, le-hallel, le-shabeach, le-faer, le-romem, le-hader, le-varech, le-aleh, u-le-kales… Anyone who knows Tanach should

Parshat Mishpatim uses the unusual word gadish —stacks of grain. This gives me the opportunity to discuss an issue related to this word that arises