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Hebrew vowels make their appearance through ‘nikkud’—a system of 16 different symbols representing 5 basic vowel sounds. These symbols are strategically placed around the letters to guide ...

Israeli website “929” — devoted to the study of all 929 chapters of Tanakh (Scripture) — just announced that it is launching an English-language website on Monday. The English edition is in ...

To read the first article in this series, Hanukkah - The celebration of the Oral Law, click here. Note: Footnotes have been omitted due to programming restraints. In the time of the second Beit ...

When my children were born, I assumed teaching them Torah would be easy. After all, I have a PhD in Talmud and am married to a rabbi. I worried about plenty of things—sleep schedules, tantrums, and ...

In Sefer Vayikra, Torah means “the rules of” or “procedures of” a given sacrifice, zot Torat ha-olah. Later, Torat Moshe refers to Chumash, and then expands to the entire Tanach (Torah sh’bichtav), ...

In translating the Torah into Greek, the aim was to mar the uniqueness of the Oral Torah, which belongs only to the Jewish people. This is the meaning of the phrase, “to cause them to forget Your ...