Recently, I was reading “Of Sadness,” an essay by Montaigne. I was reading George B.…
Category: Translation
In this post, I want to revisit something I am frequently preoccupied with, namely, the…
The Jewish Publication Society of America published an English translation of the Hebrew Bible, The Holy…
In his book, Oscar Wilde: The Story of an Unhappy Friendship, the English writer Robert…
In his book, God’s Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible, author Adam Nicolson makes,…
Sometimes we read words or hear them recited, which are not the ones we are…
I love reading the classics, but I have a big problem; they’re not all written…
Shacharit, the set of prayers recited by Jews in the morning, consists of several sections.…
Gershon Ben-Avraham 