The Rosen School of Hebrew Blog

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…

One of the amazing things in the Hebrew Language is the usage of the letters in order to create abbreviations or initials. Today we are going to learn from the words of…

The Hebrew letter Heh, or Hey (האות ה), is the 5th Letter of the Hebrew Alphabet. It also represents the number five.   There is a special significance of the letter Heh…

Hebrew is a member of the Canaanite group of Semitic languages. It was the language of the early Jews, but from 586 BC it started to be replaced by Aramaic.   By…

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…

If you ever heard about someone that insulted another person and wonder how it is called in Hebrew, the expression is called “Halbanat Panim”( הַלְבָּנַת פָּנִים). The Literal meaning of this expression…

One of the most infamous translation errors of all time was made in Hebrew.  The Latin Vulgate translation of the biblical text of Exodus 34:29 by Saint Jerome states:  “And when Moses…