The Rosen School of Hebrew Blog

One of the questions that people on this planet constantly ask themselves is about free will-בְּחִירָה חָפְשִׁית. Do we actually have it, or we are just puppets with strings in the hands…

The night before the circumcision is a night filled with tension for the newborn baby boy’s parents. On that night, many practice a custom to sit near the baby’s bed and learn…

It’s common knowledge that on the eighth day after a son is born in a Jewish family he will most likely have a circumcision-(Hebrew:בְּרִית מִילָה). Today, we want to teach you about…

The Jewish marriage ceremony is conducted under a marriage canopy, known in Hebrew as a Chuppah (Hebrew: חופה). The Cuppah consists of a square cloth, usually made of silk or velvet, supported…

The Cave of Machpelah (Hebrew: מערת המכפלה), also known as the Cave of the Patriarchs, is located in the southern Israeli city of Hebron. According to the Book of Genesis, 3700 years…

The Establishment of the Jewish state in 14/5/1948 wasn’t the first time that there was an independent state for the Jewish people in Israel’s History. The first time that we can discuss…

One of the visions of the Zionist movement was to establish a Jewish university in the Land of Israel. Founding a university was proposed as far back as 1884 in the Kattowitz…

The Faculty of Social Sciences (Hebrew: הפקולטה למדעי החברה) is one the most known and famous faculties in Israel. The faculty was founded in March 1953. In the 1930’s and 1940’s, the…

In Jewish thought the name is an arbitrary designation and conveys the nature and essence of the thing named. The name of God represents the Hebrew conception of the divine nature and…

Like all Semitic languages, the Hebrew language exhibits a pattern of stems consisting typically of “trilateral”, or 3-consonant consonantal roots (2- and 4-consonant roots also exist), from which nouns, adjectives, and verbs…