Parashat Va’etchanan includes one of the best-known sentences in the Torah, “Shema Yisrael, Hashem Eloheinu, Hashem Echad ” (Hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One; Deuteronomy 6:4).

Evan Loiterman’s “Ayin” displays an eye looking towards the sky superimposed over the clouds. ‘Ayin’ is the name of the Hebrew letter shown, and also the Hebrew word for ‘eye.’ Evan Loiterman and I ...

When I was asked to review the book The First Ten Letters of the Aleph Bais by Rabbi Billek, I was quite excited. The study of the letters is fascinating. The Gemara in Shabbos describes what the ...

"A truly beautiful letter," writes the Israeli artist Izzy Pludwinski in his new book, "The Beauty of the Hebrew Letter," "will possess a dynamism, an internal lifeforce." "Letters," he adds, "are the ...