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1. That summer I learned Biblical Hebrew with Christian women heaving themselves toward ministry one brick building at a time. We got along well, they and I and our teacher, a religious studies graduate student who spent eight hours a day transmitting the grammar and syntactical rules of ancien...
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By Rabbi Reuven Chaim Klein This week’s essay presents a meticulous examination of the Hebrew word cheilev (often translated simply as “fat” in English) and its ostensible synonyms. The word cheilev appears approximately 90 times throughout the Bible, with a plurality of those appearances clustered around the opening chapters of the Book of Leviticus in […]
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By Rabbi Reuven Chaim Klein In this essay, we discuss six different words that mean “wet” in Hebrew: lach, ratuv, ra’anan, rutfash, tofeach, and mefulam. While on the surface, all these words seem to mean the same thing—which would make them synonyms—we will delve into how these words were used and consider how each of […]