Aleph is the subject of a midrash which praises its humility in not demanding to start the Old Testament. In Hebrew the Bible begins with the second letter of the alphabet, Bet. In this folktale, ...

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The secret alef is the mystery of this week’s Torah portion. Alef is the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet. Hebrew letters also serve as numbers. Thus, alef is one; it represents G-d, who exists ...

Ever since I was a child, I have been terrified of rooms full of children — a strange trait for a Hebrew-school teacher. Yes, I adore kids one-on-one, but large groups of them scare me. I thought this ...

The textbook for the intensive Hebrew class that I enrolled in this past summer was called “Hebrew from Scratch”. Which didn’t technically apply to my situation, at age 48, in the Beginner Aleph ...

Five Yiddish and Hebrew authors were the recipients today of the 1958 Lamed Aleph prizes given annually for the best books that appeared in Yiddish and Hebrew during the year. The $500 prizes went to ...

https://doi.org/10.2979/aleph.19.2.0269 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/aleph.19.2.0269 Copy URL There are five copies of the Parisian Alfonsine Tables ...