Neither hieroglyphics nor cuneiform were alphabets in the modern sense, relying instead on symbols and ... “the alphabet was invented once, and all alphabetic writing systems derive from the original ...

The real miracle is the capacity to understand the divine meaning of va’y’hi ohr ... is made up of consecutive letters of the alphabet, excluding the letter “ב” hinting to the ...

Games of dreidel and the consumption of potato latkes and jelly donuts might obscure the deeper meanings of Hanukkah ... I surmise that many Hebrew school children mistook the locus of the ...