Aleph is the subject of a midrash which praises its humility in not demanding to start the Old Testament. In Hebrew the Bible begins with the second letter of the alphabet, Bet. In this folktale, ...

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Why is the letter aleph in the word va-yikra, the very first word of the Book of Leviticus written smaller than the others? A final Chassidic thought: Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach often told the story of ...

If I stood with my heels together, distributed my weight evenly and curved my arms slightly at my sides with my palms facing backward, I would be starting to shape myself in the tai chi equivalent ...