how to say “to think outside the box” in Hebrew

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/נדיר-1.m4a” /]נָדִיר This post is about rare in the sense of not so common – נדיר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/נדיר-1.m4a” /]. Rare meat is בשר נא[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/נדיר-2.m4a” /]. Here’s נדיר in context: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/נדיר-3.m4a” /]החוקרת מצאה כלי חרס מאוד נדיר בחפירה. The (female) researcher found a very rare piece of pottery in the dig. This word is derived from…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/גוף-תאורה-1.m4a” /]גּוּף תְּאוּרָה Since חנוכה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/גוף-תאורה-2.m4a” /] (Hanukkah) involves the themes of אור[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/גוף-תאורה-3.m4a” /] – light and Hellenism, which celebrated the human body – גוף האדם[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/גוף-תאורה-4.m4a” /], I thought I’d introduce a Hebrew term that combines these into a useful day-to-day expression. גוף תאורה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/גוף-תאורה-1.m4a” /] is a light fixture. Literally, it’s a body of…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/המצאה-1.m4a” /]הַמְצָאָה When I was growing up, some kids wanted to be firemen, others wanted to be sports stars. Most of the time, I wanted to be a movie director. But after watching episodes of Mr. Wizard, sometimes I also wanted to be an inventor. An invention, in Hebrew, is a ממציא[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/המצאה-2.m4a” /] if…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/מנה-1.m4a” /]מָנָה פָלָאפֶל Hebrew has no word for a. That’s why you might come across a native Hebrew speaker saying something like “do you have car?” And that’s if they know the word do, which also doesn’t exist in Hebrew. If you’re ordering a falafel in English, you’d probably say “I’d like a falafel.” But to do so…