What is the origin of the word אֻכְלוּסִיָּה uchlusiya - "population"? This is a word that entered into Hebrew in the Talmudic per...

 Hamas - Etymology and Hebrew Cognates Israel is still grieving and reeling from the barbaric massacre carried out by the terrorist organiza...

I'm so happy to share with all of you that after nearly six years of work, my first book,  Kohelet - A Map to Eden , is available: While...

My book, Kohelet - A Map to Eden  is now fully available in Israel! It is available in many of the book stores in Israel that carry Judaica ...

This post is part of a series about words from Kohelet, in honor of the release of my new book, Kohelet - A Map to Eden. For more informat...

This post is part of a series about words from Kohelet, in honor of the release of my new book, Kohelet - A Map to Eden. For more informat...

Taking a quick break from the series of Kohelet posts, for an investigation of a special word: sandak  סַנְדָּק. Our daughter just gave bir...

This post is part of a series about words from Kohelet, in honor of the release of my new book, Kohelet - A Map to Eden. For more informat...

This post is part of a series about words from Kohelet, in honor of the release of my new book, Kohelet - A Map to Eden. For more informat...

This post is part of a series about words from Kohelet, in honor of the release of my new book, Kohelet - A Map to Eden. For more informat...

This post is part of a series about words from Kohelet, in honor of the release of my new book, Kohelet - A Map to Eden. For more informat...

Hello everyone -  Just a quick maintenance note: All existing email subscribers have been migrated to a new service,  https://follow.it . Fr...

Once again I need to make some changes to allow people to subscribe by email. So there might be some posts related to that in the days to co...

I'm so happy to share with all of you that after nearly six years of work, my first book,  Kohelet - A Map to Eden , is available: While...

In a recent episode of his great podcast Streetwise Hebrew , host Guy Sharett reviews words deriving from the root פקח. He discusses the me...

The connection between the English " cumin " and the Hebrew kamon  כַּמּוֹן (often pronounced today kamun  כַּמּוּן) is broadly ac...