I recently found a post on a Hebrew blog that connected a few words that I had thought of writing about separately. The blogger Ilan here wr...

In my post about pinkas , I showed an example of an Israeli notepad. If you noticed, the picture said "Kohinor". When I first cam...

In my previous post I discussed daftar דפתר, which means "notebook" in Modern Hebrew. A more common word is pinkas פנקס. Both w...

In my last post I wrote about the Hebrew word daf דף - meaning "page". A manufacturer of school notebooks in Israel is called da...

My wife and I were listening to the song Yachad by Gaya , which contains the line: ורק אם נאמין / ובלי שום דאווין This site offers the foll...

After realizing that I was mistaken in my assumption that kvish כביש - "road" -was an ancient Hebrew word, I decided to write a p...

Well, we have a winner for Kri and Ktiv Game 6 ! Congratulations to Isaac M on his solution : כביש. However, I have to admit a mistake I mad...

Aside from some other distractions, I've been holding off on a post until I was ready to write about remez (remember PaRDeS?). But whil...

The first initial in the acrostic PaRDeS is peshat (or pshat ) - פשט. The definition of peshat is - "the plain, simple meaning"...

I'm trying to get back in to writing again. After spending several weeks indexing my sources, I thought I was ready to go. But it turned...

Before I switched to a small Jewish day school , I attended a very large, fairly prestigious public high school . I've written elsewher...

In this week's parasha, Yosef gives to his brothers clothing - chalifot smalot - (Bereshit 45:22): לְכֻלָּם נָתַן לָאִישׁ, חֲלִפוֹת ש...

It's clear by now that my indexing is taking much longer than I originally expected. And there have been a number of "distractions...

Almost back to regular posting, but I came across something that I had to ask the readers here about. There is a type of long grain rice cal...

As I wrote earlier, I've been spending my blogging time on trying to index my various sources, to make it easier to find places where a ...

Over the next several days, I'm going to be using my allocated "Balashon" time to better organize my sources. This should hope...

When I first lived in Israel in the early 1990s, it wasn't that easy to make an international phone call. You had to often speak to an o...

I recently received a great gift (thanks!) - the unabridged Even-Shoshan dictionary, which includes etymologies. Flipping through it, I foun...

You may have noticed an unusual word in my previous post . I quoted Yeshayahu 54:12 - וּשְׁעָרַיִךְ לְאַבְנֵי אֶקְדָּח and provided the JPS ...

On the Hebrewts mailing list , the following question was asked: Could there be any connection between the word " Sisma " (a passw...