The prophecy of Jacob over Judah is a profound statement of expectation of the coming Messiah, in which every word – indeed ...

In Judaism, words are holy and sacred. The world was created by Divine speech, teaches us the opening book of the Pentateuch; the Hebrew alphabet constitutes the spiritual DNA of the cosmos, according ...

The first word in our portion re’eh is one of the most powerful terms found in the Torah. In fact, God is described as a ro’eh on three different levels. The first time the word is found in the Torah, ...

The rabbis of the Talmud don’t agree with the beginning sentence of the Torah. The book of Genesis begins, as it is usually translated, “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” The ...

Sofer is the Hebrew word for a scribe. Sofer literally means someone who counts, and it’s the term that we use for a scribe because our ancient sofrim – our scribes – would count every single word and ...

This article examines The Torah - what it is, how it is used and how it is constructed. The Torah is the first part of the Jewish bible. It is the central and most important document of Judaism and ...

Some gifts are meant to stand the test of time, while some take one back in time. Some, however, do both. Blanche Meisel of Las Vegas sits on the board of The Schechter Institutes. She recently ...

Koren Press’ “The Koren Tanakh of the Land of Israel – Numbers” follows its predecessors in the Biblical books Exodus, Leviticus, and Samuel as a fourth outstanding biblical commentary on the Hebrew ...

Rips in 2003: he used a computer programme to search the Torah for 'skip codes' - BBC Eliyahu Rips, who has died aged 75, was a brilliant mathematician who claimed to have found codes hidden in the ...

In klezmer music, according to one website, the word is used to describe “the sound of a voice catching as it sobs.” It can also mean the particular fold in the black hats some Orthodox men wear that ...