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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.
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.
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?
This article is an xcerpt from Mr. Benner's book The Living Words. 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.
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. This Hebrew word contains a tremendous truth: giving is fundamental to loving.
In ancient Hebrew culture a long and white beard was a sign of age, maturity and wisdom. The verb form of this word, zaqeyn (Strong’s #2204), is the Hebrew meaning “to be old.”
15 paź 2017 · Because of this, the Hebrew word for love is used in many different ways, and anyone can say it, whether there is integrity behind it or not. Some examples: Love of food: Isaac-“Make me savoury foods, such as I love” (Genesis 27:4) Misguided love: “You love evil more than good” (Psalm 52:3)
