Why is the letter aleph in the word va-yikra, the very first word of the Book of Leviticus written smaller than the others? A final Chassidic thought: Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach often told the story of ...
Why is the letter aleph in the word va’yikra, the very first word of the Book of Leviticus, written smaller than the others? It is smaller, suggests the Ba’al Haturim, because it reveals Moses’s ...
In “Aleph-Bet: An Alphabet for the Perplexed” (Six Gallery Press), writer Joshua Cohen, a literary critic for the Forward, and artist Michael Hafftka reinterpret the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet, ...