Welcome to Intro To Hebrew by Jim "Yaakov" Becka. Please watch our orientation video before proceeding to the lessons.

Rabbi Jim “Yaakov” Becka - Letter 1 Intro to Hebrew Reading & Writing

Rabbi Jim “Yaakov” Becka - Letter 2 Intro to Hebrew Reading & Writing

Rabbi Jim "Yaakov" Becka - Letter 3 Intro to Hebrew Reading & Writing

Rabbi Jim "Yaakov" Becka - Letter 4 Intro to Hebrew Reading & Writing

Rabbi Jim "Yaakov" Becka - Letter 5 Intro to Hebrew Reading & Writing

Rabbi Jim “Yaakov” Becka - Letter 6 Intro to Hebrew Reading & Writing

Rabbi Jim "Yaakov" Becka - Letter 7 Intro to Hebrew Reading & Writing

Rabbi Jim "Yaakov" Becka - Letter 8 Intro to Hebrew Reading & Writing

Rabbi Jim "Yaakov" Becka - Letter 9 Intro to Hebrew Reading & Writing

Rabbi Jim "Yaakov" Becka - Letter 10 Intro to Hebrew Reading & Writing

Rabbi Jim "Yaakov" Becka - Letter 11 Intro to Hebrew Reading & Writing

Rabbi Jim "Yaakov" Becka - Letter 12 Intro to Hebrew Reading & Writing

Rabbi Jim "Yaakov" Becka - Letter 13 Intro to Hebrew Reading & Writing

Rabbi Jim "Yaakov" Becka - Letter 14 Intro to Hebrew Reading & Writing

Rabbi Jim "Yaakov" Becka - Letter 15 Intro to Hebrew Reading & Writing

Rabbi Jim "Yaakov" Becka - Letter 16 Intro to Hebrew Reading & Writing

Rabbi Jim "Yaakov" Becka - Letter 17 Intro to Hebrew Reading & Writing

Rabbi Jim "Yaakov" Becka - Letter 18 Intro to Hebrew Reading & Writing

Rabbi Jim "Yaakov" Becka - Letter 19 Intro to Hebrew Reading & Writing

Rabbi Jim "Yaakov" Becka - Letter 20 Intro to Hebrew Reading & Writing

Rabbi Jim "Yaakov" Becka - Letter 21 Intro to Hebrew Reading & Writing

Rabbi Jim "Yaakov" Becka - Letter 22 Intro to Hebrew Reading & Writing

I am so honored, to present to you our first שֶׁיֵּעוֹר shiur, lesson on the most Holy language of our Most Holy G-d. The א, Aleph is the exalted position at the רֹאשׁ rosh, head of this alephbet, and is considered to be the container, if you will, of all the alephbets’ wisdom.

Let us continue with the lesson on the א. Going deeper, there are five names of God that identify with the letter aleph א. I want to visit or direct us to some gematria, or the numerical value of the Hebrew letters.

Let’s cover some words that have the א in them.

Let’s get to the second letter of the Alephbet…the בּ bet, spelled in עִבְרִית iv’riyt Hebrew as בּיִת spells or means ‘house’. This word is found in several Hebrew names, like בּיִת-אֶל (Bethel, “House of G-d”) and one of my favorites, לֶחֶם בּיִת (Bethlehem, “House of bread”) (Let’s discuss this one).

Well, here we go on another wild ride into the Hebraic letters. This one is the letter ח Chet which, among other symbols, represents ‘a sign of life’.