A recent article on the website, Seforim Blog, compares the phonetics of biblical Hebrew and Arabic. In the post, the author, Rabbi Avi Grossman, remarks that he “cannot fathom” why the letter ayin (ע ...

Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its ...

Parashat Va’etchanan includes one of the best-known sentences in the Torah, “Shema Yisrael, Hashem Eloheinu, Hashem Echad ” (Hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One; Deuteronomy 6:4).

Back at Passover time, I published a column about a facsimile edition of an early 19th-century French Haggadah from Bordeaux, one of whose interesting features was its use of “ngh” to represent the ...

Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its ...

Chana Bracha Siegelbaum, who heads the B'erot Bat Ayin girls' seminary, spoke with Israel National Radio's Eli Stutz and Yishai Fleisher about the spiritual power of baking Hebrew bread from wheat ...

Evan Loiterman’s “Ayin” displays an eye looking towards the sky superimposed over the clouds. ‘Ayin’ is the name of the Hebrew letter shown, and also the Hebrew word for ‘eye.’ Evan Loiterman and I ...