“A truly beautiful letter,” writes Izzy Pludwinski in his book “The Beauty of the Hebrew Letter” (Brandeis University Press, 2023), “will possess a dynamism, an internal lifeforce.” The book ...

Genesis 1:1 says, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” The Hebrew word used for God here is *Elohim*, a plural noun. This plural form, indicated by ...