Adult Bar and Bat Mitzvah programs are filling up again, and the first wall most adults hit isn’t the speech or the Torah portion. It’s the Hebrew. The numbers are moving. In May, Temple Sholom of West Essex in New Jersey held its largest adult B’nai Mitzvah class to date, twelve people and eleven of […]
Author: Animesh Singh
Can You Learn to Read Hebrew With an App or AI in 2026?
An app can teach you a hundred Hebrew words and still leave you stuck on the first line of a prayer book. AI chatbots widen that gap, because they hand you instant translation and transliteration, and neither one teaches you to read a single letter. Vocabulary and reading are separate skills. Almost every 2026 learning […]
The Hebrew Alphabet Chart: A Complete Guide to All 22 Letters (and the Ones That Confuse Everyone)
Almost every student who sits down with me for the first time says some version of the same thing: “The letters just look like scribbles to me.” That reaction is completely normal — Hebrew doesn’t share an alphabet family with English, so nothing looks like a shortcut you can lean on. But here’s what I’ve […]
Why Learn Biblical Hebrew as a Christian? A Beginner’s Guide to Reading the Old Testament in Its Original Language
If you’ve spent any time studying the Old Testament closely, you’ve probably run into a footnote that says something like “the Hebrew word here is difficult to translate” — and then the commentary moves on without really explaining why. It’s a small moment, but it points to something bigger: every English Bible you’ve ever read […]