Hebrew Handwriting
אבגדהוזחטיבלמנסעפצקרשת
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Killing a Dead Language:
A Case against Emphasizing Vowel Pointing when Teaching Biblical Hebrew
by William P. Griffin
The answer is this: We are not teaching one language, but two; if we emphasize the accents, make that two and a half. We demand that our students understand and replicate an elaborate cellophane overlay that is more complicated than the language it attempts to clarify.
Even the best English translations of the most important Jewish works do little justice to the beauty and richness of the original. When I read the words spoken by Moshe, or the commentaries on them in Rashi’s funny Hebrew letters, it’s as if I am sitting in their Beit Midrash learning directly from the source.
By Yacov Fruchter
Is Learning Hebrew Important?
Hebrew is based on “roots,” patterns of letters that are the building blocks of the language. The three-letter combination in the word “write” also appears in the words for “article,” “reporter,” “letter,” “spelling,” “address,” and anything having to do with writing.
More than half of the roots in modern Hebrew come straight from the Bible.
“If I give you a text of Old English, you won’t understand a word. Those words have changed a lot,” Birnbaum said. “Now you take an Israeli child, you give him a text from the Book of Genesis, or a text from the Book of Samuel, he can understand, not to exaggerate, 70 percent of it. He can understand it.”
Reporter Daniel Estrin
A history of Hebrew, told one word at a time
After three to five years of “Hebrew School,” our pre Bar/Bat Mitzvah age students studying in part-time Jewish educational settings often complain that they don’t know Hebrew. And certainly when compared to their successes in Spanish, French or Chinese in their elementary school public or private school classes, they have a right to feel like something is amiss.
Hebrew Through Movement Project
Changing the Way We Teach Hebrew in Part-time Settings!
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