Writing Hebrew letters creatively is a Jewish tradition. This rabbi sees sacredness in doodles, too. “There’s actually a cognitive benefit to drawing shapes and images to represent words ...

Hebrew has 22 letters and five vowels. To that Shomer’s aleph bet adds 11 consonants and one vowel. The new letters may look quizzical to some, ...

“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 ...

Attending Akiba Hebrew Academy — and graduating as part of the school’s first class in 1951 — Rosenstein fell in love with Hebrew letters but had an absence of materials from which to learn. “As far ...

Like the golem, robots, androids and even AI are powered with recombinations of elemental units. Instead of Hebrew letters, the units are ones and zeros. In both instances, ...

In the story of all the letters coming to God and asking which one can be used first for the creation of the world, they’re making their case to be used first in the creation of the world.

A sculpture of the golem made up of carvings of Jewish letters, by artist Joshua Abarbanel and displayed in the Jewish Museum in Berlin. Sean Gallup/Getty Images ‘Coding’ everywhere you look. Like the ...