The Hebrew word cherem חרם is familiar to most of us as a ban, an excommunication. This type of censure developed in Talmudic and Medieval...

In a previous post , I said I would discuss the difference between solet סולת and kemach קמח. There's a lot of confusion about this ...

In our last post , we discussed the possible connection between almana (widow) and the root אלם - "to bind". Steinberg wrote that...

Previously we discussed the word "omer", and I mentioned that one of the definitions is "sheaf". Someone wrote to me wit...

With the Pope visiting Israel, we hear the unusual Hebrew translation for pope - afifyor (or apifyor ) אפיפיור. What is the origin of the ...

When I was researching the meaning of the word " omer ", I found that Rabbi David Zvi Hoffman quoted Shadal as saying that the wor...

We're between Pesach and Shavuot now, the time that we "count the omer". But do we really? Let's look at the word "...