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369 mitzvot
- So in total, nowadays, 369 mitzvot are still operative.
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Rabbinic Judaism (Hebrew: יהדות רבנית , romanized: Yahadut Rabanit), also called Rabbinism, Rabbinicism, or Rabbanite Judaism, has been an orthodox form of Judaism since the 6th century CE, after the codification of the Babylonian Talmud.
- The Alphabet (Called the Aleph-Bet) Has 22 Letters. There are 22 letters in the Hebrew alphabet (commonly referred to as the aleph-bet, after the first two letters, aleph and bet).
- It’s Related to Arabic and Aramaic — and Originally Had No Vowels. Hebrew is a Semitic language — like Arabic and Aramaic — and like most ancient Semitic languages its alphabet has no vowels.
- It’s Read from Right to Left. Unlike English, Hebrew is read and written from right to left. There are numerous types of Hebrew script. The most familiar is the block letters used in Torah scrolls and most printed texts.
- It Dates Back to the Second Millennium BCE. The earliest Hebrew texts date from the end of the second millennium BCE. Hebrew was employed as both a written and spoken language until the destruction of the First Temple in 587 BCE.
- Shalom (shah-LOME) שלום. Perhaps the best-known Hebrew word today is shalom, which means “peace” or “wellbeing.” It also can be used for both “hello” and “goodbye.”
- Todah (toe-DAH) תודה. Hebrew for gratitude or acknowledgement, this is the modern word for “thank you.” In Temple times, a Jew who felt grateful for G‑d’s salvation from danger would bring a korban todah, a “sacrifice of gratitude.”
- Torah (toe-RAH) תורה. Literally “guide” or “instruction,” the Torah refers to the Five Books of Moses which contain G‑d’s instructions. More broadly, Torah refers to the entire corpus of Jewish spiritual scholarship.
- Mitzvah (mitz-VAH) מצוה. Literally “commandment,” mitzvah refers to any of the 613 commandments in the Torah, especially giving charity. Since a Jew is obligated to follow the commandments after reaching the age of majority, a boy’s 13th birthday is his “bar mitzvah” and a girl’s 12th birthday is her “bat mitzvah.”
Along with the latter books of the Prophets and the Writings — 24 books in all — this is the Hebrew Bible, also known as the Written Torah, or Torah she-bich’tav in Hebrew. But there’s another Torah, known as the Oral Torah — or Torah she-ba’al peh.
The number of attested Rabbinic Hebrew words is less than 20,000, of which (i) 7879 are Rabbinic par excellence, i.e. they did not appear in the Old Testament (the number of new Rabbinic Hebrew roots is 805); (ii) around 6000 are a subset of Biblical Hebrew; and (iii) several thousand are Aramaic words which can have a Hebrew form.
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Sefer HeArukh. Earliest comprehensive dictionary of rabbinic literature, compiled at the turn of the 12th century and quoted often by Talmud commentators. Otzar La'azei Rashi. 20th-century dictionary translating the Old French words in Rashi’s Tanakh and Talmud commentaries into Hebrew.
