Monday, July 22, 2024
emunah, amen, emet, and umanut
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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 ...
Monday, July 15, 2024
bara and bari
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The Hebrew root ברא has three distinct meanings. Two are very familiar, one much less so. One meaning is "to create" and is found ...
Tuesday, July 09, 2024
halakha and charig
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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...
Sunday, June 30, 2024
Nukhba and Nahbi
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I was curious about the etymology of Nukhba , the Hamas special forces unit that carried out horrific terrorist attacks on October 7. The ro...
Sunday, June 23, 2024
fukes
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I was curious about the origin of the Israeli slang term fukes פוּקְס, meaning "stroke of luck," referring to something positive ...
Sunday, June 16, 2024
dayal, doula, and degel - update
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I have a long list of words to write about. Today I started looking into one of them, and then only later did it turn out that I had alrea...
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