"A truly beautiful letter," writes the Israeli artist Izzy Pludwinski in his new book, "The Beauty of the Hebrew Letter," "will possess a dynamism, an internal lifeforce." "Letters," he adds, "are the ...

“Investigating my discovery of the language, I think I have investigated myself.” — Jhumpa Lahiri, from her memoir, “In Other Words” Over 20 years have passed since my first Hebrew class. I began this ...

Let’s start at the very beginning. It is, as “>very good place to start. Let’s go to the biblical book of Genesis, or, more specifically, to the Hebrew text of it, known as B’reishit, and look at the ...

"If all you know is alef (the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet), then teach alef!" the Chabad Lubavitcher rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory, would often quote. How often ...

“Death penalty in keeping with principles of the Bible” (Reading Eagle, June 4), which asserts that the Hebrew Bible generally supports capital punishment, brings to mind comedian Lewis Black’s advice ...

Although yod is the smallest Hebrew letter (similar to the Greek iota ı),** its ancient form was much larger, looking more like yad “hand” (from shoulder to middle finger). It is the most frequent ...

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The answer is וווו spelling the word ‘U’vavo’ meaning, ‘and his hook’. (In Hebrew letters: וווו). The letter "ו" means "and" and it is always connected to a word, it cannot stand alone. I doubt there ...