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The textbook for the intensive Hebrew class that I enrolled in this past summer was called “Hebrew from Scratch”. Which didn’t technically apply to my situation, at age 48, in the Beginner Aleph ...

'The Beauty of the Hebrew Letter': The shape of aleph-bets to come - review The rise of a whole new profession of calligraphy artists, often with little or no connection with tradition, has meant a ...

Why is the letter aleph in the word vayikra, the very first word of the Book of Leviticus written smaller than the others? A second, more mystical thought comes to mind. Rav Avraham Yitzchak Kook, the ...