You may have written off learning a foreign language, assuming that it will be very difficult. Today, however, it's actually quite easy, due to the wide range of courses and methodologies that exist. You can now study and learn another language when you...

Traditional Judaism believes that there is a dual Torah, consisting of the Torah Sh'b'ktav (the Written Torah) and the Torah Sh'Ba'al Peh (the Oral Torah). Commandments or statutes derived from the written Torah are called "d'Oraita" from the Aramaic wor...

Caddo is a Caddoan language originating in the Southern Plains. It is the sole Southern tongue from the family and is spoken by very few among the Caddo Nation of Oklahoma. Efforts are being made to incorporate the language into the newest generations, ...

The Chickasaw language is derived from the Muskogean family and is spoken by Chickasaw inhabitants of Southeastern Oklahoma. Only about 1,000 individuals speak it at present. It was much more popular during the eighteen and nineteen hundreds, when all ...

Choctaw is a language spoken by the Choctaw people. It is part of the Muskogean family and is spoken by Native Americans in the southeastern U.S. It was a very popular language in the Frontier days, even known by the likes of some American presidents. ...

Like other languages, the Cherokee language is named after its people, the Cherokee. It is part of the Iroquoian language family, and it is the only Southern Native American language from the group that is still used. The Cherokee language is associate...

The revelatory experience at Sinai is considered by Jews as the major event in the history of the Jewish people. The Bible shows God as having established a relationship with the patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, but Sinai solidified the relations...

The primary divisions among Jews beginning in the medieval period were Sephardim and Ashkenazim. Its quite clear however that dividing Jews into only these two categories is incorrect and oversimplification. The term Sephardim is derived from the Hebrew w...

One of the most well known Jewish customs connected with the observance of Shabbat (the Sabbath) is the lighting of lamps or candles before sunset on Friday night. The practice is often thought to have been initiated by the Pharisees, a Jewish sect in the...

If you are an American and have ever traveled to Great Britain then you understand that American English and British English can sometimes feel and sound like completely different languages. Sure, you understood most of what you heard on your trip, but ev...

The Bible never mentions the subject of Jewish identity as directly as later Jewish texts do.It only addresses it circuitously. The patriarch Abraham for example, the founder of Biblical faith, does not appear until the end of chapter eleven in the book ...

In the Kabbalah, the divine name of God which is written in Hebrew using four characters YHVH, represents the concept of Midat HaRachamim ( God's Attributes of Mercy). In contrast, the more generic name used, Elokim represents, Midat HaDin( the Divine ...

One of the principal concerns of classical Jewish thought is the importance of biblical texts and their interpretation. Another focal concern of classical Judaism is the implementation and application of "halakhah" (Jewish Law) as derived from biblical a...

Jewish texts dating from the time of the codification of the Mishnah which occurred around the year 200 CE convey the idea that along with the commencement of puberty comes responsibility for one's own actions. The idea of accountability, goes back even f...

Modern Hebrew is a historic language that draws many people to study it for various reasons. While modern Hebrew is somewhat different than the historical language known to many as the language of the Hebrew Bible, learning modern Hebrew means that despit...