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31 mar 2017 · The elusive secret to capturing the ability to give or receive love is safely concealed in the ability of the Ancient Hebrew pictographs to graphically unveil this ongoing universal mystery.
In our modern Western culture, love is an abstract thought of emotion, how one feels toward another, but the Hebrew word אהב ahav [H:157] goes much deeper than simple emotion. The parent root of this word is הב hav .
28 lip 2023 · The Hebrew word for love is ahavah, which is rooted in the more molecular word hav,1 which means to give, revealing that, according to Judaism, giving is at the root of love. What does this etymological insight teach us both about the function of love and about how love functions?
20 mar 2024 · From one of the earliest surviving ketubot, written in ancient Israel in the early second century CE, to the 1999 ketubah hanging in my parents’ own bedroom, Jewish art has decorated and celebrated marriage contracts and Jewish love.
In our modern Western culture love is an abstract thought of emotion, how one feels toward another but the Hebrew meaning goes much deeper. As a verb this word means "to provide and protect what is given as a privilege" as well as " to have an intimacy of action and emotion".
Let’s look at the Hebrew word for love — ahava (אהבה), which is made up of three basic Hebrew letters: aleph (א), hey (ה), and vet (ב). From these three root letters of a-hav-a, we get the root word, hav (הב), which means to give. Ahava (Love), by Robert Indiana (Photo by Talmoryair)
15 paź 2017 · LOVE is a beautiful word that is expressed in every language. Unlike New Testament Greek which has various words expressing different aspects of “love”, (erotic, companionship, divine), Hebrew has only the word ahav/ahava, which has been translated into English as “love”.
