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But actually doodling around the letters of the aleph bet is age-old — it’s part of Jewish tradition to have illuminated manuscripts. An illustration of the Hebrew alphabet. (Rabbi Emily Meyer) ...
Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center has been homeless since the Eaton fire destroyed its building. It needed a Holy Ark for the ...
In 'Living The Letters - An Alphabet of Emerging Jewish Thought,' Israeli scholar Michael Marmur says future of Jewish state, ...
In Jewish storytelling, Hebrew letters’ sacred power can be manipulated into combinations that animate inanimate matter. Such is the case of one of the earliest humanoid robots or “androids ” in ...
A Torah portion is read during Shabbat service. File photo What makes this sentence important enough to be a book unto itself? The central mission of Judaism is to bring ethical monotheism into ...
“Science takes things apart to see how they work. Religion puts things together to see what they mean.” That’s one of many great lines authored by the legendary Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks. But we don’t ...
A prominent kabbalist further suggested that the Hebrew word Yisrael is an acronym for Yesh Shishim Ribu Otiyot Latorah—there are 600,000 letters in the Torah.
Rabbi Samson: That’s an excellent question. Hebrew is indeed the Holy Tongue - the language in which the world was created and the language of the Torah and prophecy. There’s no substitute for it.
The oldest near-complete Hebrew Bible sold at Sotheby’s for $38.1 million on Wednesday, one of the highest prices for a book or historical document ever sold at auction. The volume, known as the ...
From mud to man In Jewish storytelling, Hebrew letters’ sacred power can be manipulated into combinations that animate inanimate matter.