Results for “Hebrew”

…Fatah had drawn blood. I had just turned 26 years old. I was finishing my studies in math, physics and economics at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and had joined my Sayeret Matkal comrades the night before the assault. It was a huge operation: ten battalions, including crack...

… following sections. The metadata for the other corpora may not be equally reliable for all periods. In particular, the Hebrew corpus during the 19th century is composed largely of reprinted works, whose original publication dates farpredate the metadata date for the publication...

…proved and largely eliminated in the English data. For instance, their date metadata is not as accurate. In the case of Hebrew, the metadata for language is an oversimplification: a significant fraction of the earliest texts annotated as Hebrew are in fact hybrids formed from Heb...

…esoteric and mystical interpretations of the Scriptures, | learned the secret meanings of each of the twenty-two letter Hebrew alphabet. Much like the Platonic view of mathematics, that it existed before the physical universe, these symbolic equivalences were believed to be etern...

…ended. As is typical in Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods, there were two competing Yeshivas: One taught Yiddish, the other Hebrew. I started out in the Yiddish-speaking more traditional, school-named “Torahs Emes” (the Truthful Bible), where my grandma Ringel wanted me to go to lea...

…more than 7 to 8 percent. (When I started Yale Law School in 1959, I noticed that the university’s motto was written in Hebrew—the biblical words “Urim V’Tomim.” When I asked a friend who has graduated Yale College why Yale’s motto was in Hebrew, he replied: “It’s a test—if you c...

blue eyed type.” (Ari is a traditional Hebrew name dating back to the

their date metadata is not as accurate. In the case of Hebrew

we note that earlier portions of the Hebrew corpus contain a large

despite having left Hebrew University early

or Rosh Aman in Hebrew. All had come to the role

his twentieth birthday. Jacob did still insist on helping financially, which allowed my father to enroll at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He did well in his studies — literature, history and philosophy — but abandoned them after two years. His explanation for not staying o...

…, without his knowing whom he was blessing, since he never would have approved blessing a baseball player. We made up a Hebrew name for Jackie Robinson, calling him Yakov (Jacob) Gnov (Rob) buh (in) Ben (son). When he got his first hit, we were convinced the blessing had worked....

Sassoon and I were loudly belting out the Hebrew words to the amusement of the

danced the hora and played sports using Hebrew words (a