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Tech and Religion – Surprising Hebrew-Latin-Chinese Connection

/ Chinese, English, Etymology, Hebrew, Latin, Persian, Religion, TV / 3 minutes of reading

I just came across this very interesting video from Religion for Breakfast YouTube channel. It’s about how Big-Tech companies are adapting religious characteristics and assume roles that are traditionally reserved for the classic religions of our world. Before we get started, if you didn’t know about Religion for Breakfast, consider following the project because they […]

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The hidden symbolism of Westworld’s maze

/ Hebrew, Etymology, TV / 3 minutes of reading

Warning: The following post contains spoilers the first season of Westworld. Reader discretion is advised. My feelings towards Westworld are somewhat complicated. I absolutely loved the first season and thought it was brilliant. The second season was also quite good, but for obvious reasons it could not replicate the magic of the first one. The

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Serpent of Uncertainty – The word snake in Hebrew

/ Hebrew, Etymology, Religion / 8 minutes of reading

In these uncertain times, I find myself thinking more and more about the word ‘snake’ in Hebrew and what it represents. The word for ‘snake’ in Hebrew in נָחָשׁ (nachash). It’s a masculine noun so its plural form is נְחָשִׁים (nechashim). There is something very intriguing about the shoresh נ-ח-ש (Nun-Chet-Shin) which forms the word

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A Question of Reflection – Between The Mirror of Galadriel and Neo’s Spoon

/ Hebrew, Literature, TV / 11 minutes of reading

The Mirror of Galadriel is one of my favorite parts in The Lord of the Rings story. The first time I read the book I was too young to understand its true meaning and hidden symbolism. I simply assumed it was an elven-made crystal ball of sorts, i.e., a mystical device that can pierce through

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Fenced Currency – Immigration, inflation and the lingo-economic war waged on your mind

/ Etymology, Chinese, Greek, Hebrew, Politics / 16 minutes of reading

The Chinese word for city is 城市 (pinyin – chéng shì). The first character 城 means wall in the sense of a defensive wall, and the second character 市 represents market. The name Polis (πόλις) for the ancient city-states of Greece is believed to have derived from ptólis which means citadel or fort, but it

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Rings of Cower – Why opposing Black Elves in Amazon’s new show is NOT racist

/ Politics, Elvish, Literature, TV / 12 minutes of reading

Gather around children! Today we are going to hear the tale of Ar-Amazôn and the Rings of Power. Oh, it is a tale as old as time itself. A story about a man who had everything, yet knew no satisfaction, and always craved for more. So vain a man Ar-Amazôn was, he gathered all his

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The Butterfly Effect – How Hebrew drastically changed my view on abortions

/ Hebrew, Etymology, Politics, Religion / 9 minutes of reading

Abortions is the only topic on everyone’s lips these days it seems. Not only in the US, but also in Israel and many other places, at least according to my social media feeds. Last week, in a giant act of virtue signaling the Israeli Ministry of Health, even announced they will ease abortion regulations in

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Helping Hands – The amazing friendship between Hebrew and Chinese

/ Chinese, Etymology, Hebrew, Orthography / 5 minutes of reading

Meet the Chinese character for friendship. It is written 友 and pronounced yǒu in standard Mandarin Chinese (sounds more like ‘yo’ than ‘you’). Though it is not so easy to see it today, this character was originally a pictograph of two hands. Since shaking hands as a form of greeting probably was not a thing

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Past Intense – the perfect Hebrew expression for Passover

/ Hebrew, Grammar, Music / 8 minutes of reading

One of my favorite Modern Hebrew expressions, which I teach / review every year when Passover is around the corner, goes like this: What it means is we overcame (literally we passed – עברנו) the Pharoah (פרעה), we shall overcome or pass (נעבור) this (זה) as well (גם). The word את serve as the marker

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The Daoist Preposition – My favorite Hebrew word

/ Hebrew, Etymology, Grammar / 5 minutes of reading

Hebrew has a lot of beautiful words. Some are beautiful because of the way they sound; some are beautiful because of the way they are written; and some are beautiful because of what they describe or the association they create in the listener’s mind. After giving it much thought and a lot of careful consideration,

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