This Seminar will follow the tracks of the holy tongue (leshon hakodesh) in secular Hebrew poetry in Israel from the 1950s onwards, and will examine the spectrum of relations between the supposedly secular art and its intrinsic sanctity. This Seminar 's point of departure is Gershom Scholem's reflections on the ghostly power that lies within the secularized Hebrew, as expressed in his 1926 letter to Franz Rosenzweig. Our reading will focus on explicit religious contents, such as writing about God and the scriptures and biblical references, and will investigate the presence of religious sources (the bible, the sages, prayers, Jewish mysticism, etc.) in the works of Yehuda Amichai, Nathan Zach, David Avidan, Dahlia Ravikovitch, Yair Hurvitz, Yona Wallach, Meir Wieseltier, Hezi Leskali, Yitzhak Laor, Tamir Lahav-Radlmesser and other.