The Rosen School of Hebrew Blog

One of the important times in the History of Judaism is the time between the 11th and the 16th, whose name is called “the time of the Rishonim”(Hebrew: ראשונים). This time was…

On the night between the 5th of October 1946 and the 6th something amazing happened in the land of Israel, that in those days were under the hands of the British Authority….

An essential part of the Israeli high school experience is the study of all the students’ rights and obligations as the citizens of Israel. This is taught during final three years of high…

The fourth approach to the state of Israel is for the state to be the state for all Jews around the world- מדינת כל העם היהודי. Israel would be the central focus of every…

On May 14th, 1948 the Jewish state was established. Every year ever since on the Hebrew date, the fifth day of the month of Iyyar-ה באייר – the streets of Israel are…

The San Remo Conference is definitely a hallmark moment in the history of the establishment of the Jewish state. At this conference, which took place over a week – from June 19-26,…

The Hebrew alphabet has 22 letters. Five Hebrew letters are formed differently when they appear as the last letter of a word. These forms are called “sofit”(final) forms. The five letters sound…

When we speak about an “alphabet” we indicate a series of characters with phonetic values, which must be compiled to form words. Not so with Egyptian and Mesopotamian writing. For those people,…

Aleph is the reconstructed name of the first letter of the Proto-Canaanite alphabet continued in descended Semitic alphabets as the Syriac ‘Ālaphܐ, Hebrew Aleph א, and Arabic Alif. Aleph is the reconstructed name of the first…

Bet or vet the second letter of the Hebrew alphabet.This letter’s name means “house” in some Semitic languages (Hebrew: בַּיִת, Arabic bayt, Akkadian bītu, bētu).The letter is a picture of a nomadic tent such as…