Discover which Hebrew words we use in English and other facts about the language. Also available in Hebrew with audio.

No exam necessary. If you have no knowledge of Hebrew, or if you have partial knowledge of the Hebrew alphabet and know 10 to 20 words, you are considered a beginner and should register for Hebrew 10.

Alter’s is “the best translation of the Bible into English ever made,” said Hendel ... “I could read the Hebrew alphabet, knew about 35 words and I could do my haftarah,” he said.

A version of the video with English subtitles was ... combined each of the 22 letters in Hebrew with each of the 29 in Arabic to create an Aravrit alphabet with 638 characters.