This zemer, song, was authored by Yisrael ben Moshe Najara (c. 1555- 1625, biography is below). His name ישראל is spelled by the first letter

I once read a book by someone very familiar with rabbinic Hebrew and modern Hebrew who ended up studying the King James Bible and writing

The Tanach has several words for sticks: shevet, mateh, mishenet and makel. What is the difference between them? Let us analyze the easiest one first,

There was a very important find recently from Lachish. The item — an ancient comb — was discovered in 2017, but the faint writing on

I am repeating this article from last year, because I have to correct a major mistake that I made — as I will explain towards

כתנת is an easy word. It appears many times in Tanach and is a garment. But what is the meaning of that word פסים? The

The widespread assumption today is that this poem was authored by Rabbi Elazar Azikri (1533-1600), a kabbalistic rabbi in Safed. He had a lot of

Part II Last week, I began my summary of an article in Hakirah, volume 31 (2022) by Daniel Klein. The article is entitled: “Let Him

In Genesis 23:2, we are told that Sarah died and that Avraham came “lispod le-Sarah ve-livkotah.” “Livkotah” means “to cry.” But what does “lispod” mean?

Students of Hebrew are taught early on that the hitpael functions as a “reflexive” stem, i.e., that the actor is doing some action on himself.

When we realize that the Jewish state is essentially a result of World War I, we much better understand the justice of our cause. Unfortunately,