How Much Sabaic Can I Read with Hebrew? Less Than I’d Hoped.
A Hebrew speaker tries to read CIH 543, a Jewish inscription from Ḥimyar, and spends a while parsing a family’s names as grammar.
Learning & Languages
Dew of Your Youth
טַל יַלְדֻתֶיךָ Tehillim 110:3
Dew of Your Youth is about thought, memory, matters of faith, and the systems we build to keep our thinking from dissolving.
Jewish texts, personal workflows, family archives, and languages learned along the way.
If you’ve ever tried to organize your soul with Markdown, welcome.
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Faith & Practice
Success Is Not Proof: Tzidkat HaTzaddik 64–65
Things are going well. Your plans are working. Doors keep opening. You feel that Hashem is helping you, and perhaps He really is. Does that mean you’re right?
Learning & Languages
How Much Phoenician Can I Read with Hebrew?
A Hebrew speaker reads Tabnit’s Phoenician curse against grave robbers, carved on a recycled Egyptian coffin, with the guesses and corrections left visible.
Faith & Practice
What We Inherit: Tzidkat HaTzaddik 62–63
My father and I were learning אותיות ס״ב–ס״ג in Tzidkat HaTzaddik, where Rav Tzadok talks about the qualities people inherit from their parents. There are some interesting ideas here. There are also a few places where I had to stop and say, “Hang on. Didn’t you just tell us the opposite?”
Learning & Languages
If You Know Hebrew, Do You Know Moabite?
A Hebrew speaker reads the ninth-century BCE Mesha Stele without first studying Moabite, keeping the misreadings visible, to see how far Hebrew actually gets you.
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