Writing Hebrew letters carefully is a Jewish tradition. This rabbi sees sacredness in doodles, too. Copied to clipboard. For Web: Copy HTML. Copied to clipboard. For Print: Copy Plain Text.

Yakira is the founder of Hebrew Guru and Mensch World Books and the author of How to Be a Jew Today and the LEARN TO READ HEBREW IN 18 STEPS book series. She is also a co-owner of Torah Rental LA.

One person who saw such connections is Yehudit Goldfarb. She started teaching Tai Chi in Berkeley, California, in 1987, and was introduced to “the dance of the letters” in Modi’in in 1979.

“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 ...

The Academy of the Hebrew Language announced that a mirror image of the letter Tzadi would be added to the alphabet to spell out a 'Ch.' It quickly clarified that the announcement was an April ...

Is Hebrew the world's first alphabet? Israelites in Egypt may have turned hieroglyphs into letters 3,800 years ago. Dr Douglas Petrovich looked at 16 Hebrew letters from Egyptian tablets ...

In the basement studios of Minnesota Center for Book Arts, wood type fills drawers and cabinets, its nicks and scratches hinting at decades of printing history. But upstairs sits a box of type ...