Hebrew letters are all around us from day one, no matter where we grow up. In Jewish mysticism, letters are considered to be kind of the atoms of creation. It is said that if one letter should disappear from the alphabet, the world would collapse. Regardless of what you think about that concept, on a personal level, it is a notion quite a few generations before us have dedicated their lives to. 

It is our roots.

And I deeply believe in roots. 

Not in the traditional sense of a demand to "stick to what has been done before". But rather in the sense off "digging in my own garden". Having lived in four different countries, four different languages, four different cultural contexts has sensitised me to the power of the cultural context we are born into. What our parents thought, the way our grandparents lived, the food our great grandparents ate, all these things have a direct and powerful yet often hidden and disguised impact on us. It doesn't mean that we should unappeasably stick to those things. But we will inevitably build upon them and when attempting to "dig deep", it is first and foremost the reality of our ancestors that we find.

And in our specific case, that reality is bathed in and driven by Hebrew letters. So Hebrew letters is where I choose to start digging, time and again.