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But oddly enough, the anomalies are in words from “lashon kodesh” — Hebrew or Aramaic — that never had to be transliterated into Yiddish.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Survey of American Jewish Language and Identity 2009

But oddly enough, the anomalies are in words from “lashon kodesh” — Hebrew or Aramaic — that never had to be transliterated into Yiddish.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Survey of American Jewish Language and Identity 2009

He even accepts women as teachers; and not just teachers of girls or young boys, but women who can be expert enough to teach limmudei kodesh, sacred subjects, to males (IM YD 3: 73).

Feinstein, Rabbi Moses. 2009

The midrash relates that Huldah was gifted with ruah ha-kodesh (the spirit of divine inspiration) by merit of her husband Shallum son of Tikvah, who was one of the outstanding individuals of his generation and who engaged in acts of kindness every day.

Huldah, the Prophet: Midrash and Aggadah. 2009

But oddly enough, the anomalies are in words from “lashon kodesh” — Hebrew or Aramaic — that never had to be transliterated into Yiddish.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Survey of American Jewish Language and Identity 2009

The agents of the mediation between the less learned and the Hebrew sources were, for obvious reasons, learned men, mostly religious officials (kley kodesh) of some sort (including prominent rabbis).

Old Yiddish Language and Literature. 2009

For those of us who have yet to learn Hebrew, English translations of mystical texts (often produced in academia) can enrich our Jewish practice, are serve as a wonderful motivation to learn lashon kodesh (the holy tongue) and access the original.

Scholem a heretic? Really? | Jewschool 2007

And it comes from borrowing rooms in churches and covering up the Jesus paintings and pulling the collapsible aron kodesh out of the car trunk.

I Yid it Myself | Jewschool 2007

More time for limudei chol like science and algebra means axiomatically that there is less time for limudei kodesh like Talmud and Torah and this constitutes a fundamental departure from the way that the yeshivot were teaching before.

Discriminatory Anti-Haredi Legislation Revoked | Jewschool 2006

Morfix is a Hebrew-English dictionary with Arabic connections, and this site has a metric ton of sifrei kodesh online in Hebrew/Aramaic.

2005 July - Danya Ruttenberg 2005