Eliezer Ben Yehuda: Reviving the Prophesied “Pure speech”
By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz Countless miracles led to the establishment of the modern state of Israel, not the least of which was the resurrection of Hebrew as a spoken language. Much of the credit for this goes to one man, who died exactly...
Learn Hebrew Through the Torah Portion of Toldot
Have you ever wanted to learn the Bible in Hebrew? Rabbi Elan Adler goes through the weekly Torah portion of Toldot and offers insights into the Hebrew meaning of the stories between Jacob and Esau.
What’s the Difference Between Biblical Hebrew and Modern Hebrew?
In Zephaniah 3:9 the prophet describes how all the nations of the world will have “purity of speech” in the end of days: “For then I will change the nations [to speak] a language of purity so that they all will proclaim the Name of God,...
Studying the Bible in Hebrew
I’ve always enjoyed listening to audiobooks, but I recently started listening to podcasts and am loving them! I heard two recent podcasts that reminded me of this week’s Torah portion, Noah. Genesis 11 contains the famous story of the...
Weekly Torah Portion: Building a Tower of Hebrew
An amazing reason for Jews and non Jews to study Hebrew emerges from the lesson of the Tower of Babel found in this week’s Torah Portion. "The whole earth was of one language and one common purpose… And they said, 'Come, let us build us a...