Faur calls it Alphabetic Judaism. The covenant was written down and published to a whole people, not kept in a palace or a temple archive. Once the law is in a text anyone can read, authority moves from whoever holds power to a page everyone can check. That makes us the world’s oldest book club, and I’m a member.

It’s also why the letters themselves matter to me. The constellation on the home page is the alphabet in its Phoenician form, the twenty-two letters Hebrew and Arabic both grew from. I’m working on a longer piece on Alphabetic Judaism, and this page will grow with it.

Start with

• Thought
• The Horizontal Society
• The alphabet on the home page

Every post that uses it

• The Horizontal Society for Ashkenazim 14 January 2025
• Faur on the Mishne Tora 14 January 2025
• The Horizontal Society 14 January 2025