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.
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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When Piety Becomes the Minimum
Head covering, six hours between meat and dairy, an ever-longer siddur: how the practices of the especially pious quietly become everyone’s minimum.
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Bread, Meat, or a Meal? Hebrew and Arabic as Cousins
Hebrew לחם means bread. Arabic لحم means meat. Trying to understand how that happened sent me back to Daniel, the korbanos, and a disagreement between Ibn Ezra and the Ramban.
Faith & Practice
הרווח שבין מחיאות הכפיים
ה-ma של מיאזאקי, ‘שדה הריקות’ של נישיטאני וה״מה״ של משה מצביעים כולם על דבר אחד: המרחב הפנוי שבו אפשר לקבל.
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The Space Between the Claps
Miyazaki’s ma, Nishitani’s field of emptiness, and Moshe’s mah all point to one thing: the open space where something can be received.
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