Did you know that the ancient scrolls of the Torah don’t contain any vowels? Unlike English, where vowels are explicitly represented as letters (A, E, I, O, U) and are fundamental to every word ...

You've learned which letters tend to go together and which words fit in which situations. You can read without vowels because your brain is not just reading, it is reconstructing.

Hebrew vowels make their appearance through ‘nikkud’—a system of 16 different symbols representing 5 basic vowel sounds. These symbols are strategically placed around the letters to guide ...

One of the oldest surviving biblical manuscripts, a nearly complete 1,100-year-old Hebrew Bible, could soon be yours — for a cool $30 million.

Politics Kamala Harris’ Hebrew merch is taking shape — in the form of a punctuation mark A popular design is a riff on a pronunciation guide for Harris’ first name — with Hebrew letters at ...

Masoretic Bibles feature a system of vowel points under the letters, known as the nikud, to indicate how the Hebrew words (which are written without vowels) should be pronounced and understood.

Unlike Torah scrolls, where the Hebrew letters are devoid of vowels and punctuation, these manuscripts contained extensive annotation instructing readers how to recite the words correctly.

“A truly beautiful letter,” writes Izzy Pludwinski in his book “The Beauty of the Hebrew Letter” (Brandeis University Press, 2023), “will possess a dynamism, an internal lifeforce.” The book ...

Unlike Torah scrolls, where the Hebrew letters are devoid of vowels and punctuation, these manuscripts contained extensive annotation instructing readers how to recite the words correctly.

A Hebrew Bible considered to be the earliest nearly complete version of the pivotal book could end up being the most expensive historical document ever to land on the auction block, according to ...