The Hebrew month of Elul אֱלוּל begins this week, so let's look at its etymology. As with the other names of the months in the current H...

Rabbi David Bashevkin (of the enjoyable 18Forty podcast) recently posted on his Substack an essay entitled " The Revival of Hebrew .&q...

The Hebrew word for "feeding tube" (or more technically a nasogastric or orogastric tube) is זוֹנְדָּה zonda . This is clearly not...

Devarim 8:17-18 includes a well-known passage where the people are warned against attributing their successes to their own talents, instead...

Someone recently asked me if I had written about the root אמן. I thought for sure I had already, but it turned out I only mentioned it very ...

The Hebrew root ברא has three distinct meanings. Two are very familiar, one much less so. One meaning is "to create" and is found ...

Halakha  הֲלָכָה can refer to the system of Jewish law as a whole, or the set of laws dealing with a specific subject. Most etymologies conn...