having trouble seeing the print? עִם, אֶת extra large discount ENDS TOMORROW – AUGUST 20 SIGN UP NOW! עִם (eem) is the very common Hebrew preposition meaning with. But perhaps you’ve found it strange that when the word is declined, the letters ע (a) and מ (m) disappear, and instead we get: with me –…
having trouble seeing the print? אָבְדָן Learn to speak Hebrew! Our Hebrew Level 1 intensive class starts November 20 in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Today marks the passing (here’s an entry about how to say that in Hebrew) of Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel, head of the world-renowned Mir Yeshiva. The 5,000 students of the Mir were joined by tens of thousands of…
גֹּדֶל, מִדָּה listen and repeat Can’t read Hebrew yet? If you’ve got some basic Hebrew down, you know that the word for big is גָּדוֹל listen and repeat for a masculine object such as a book, and גְּדוֹלָה listen and repeat for a feminine object such as a shirt. Size – or bigness – is גֹּדֶל listen…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/שלט-עצור-#.m4a” /]שֶׁלֶט עָצוֹר, תַּמְרוּר עָצוֹר The Hebrew word for sign in the physical sense is שלט[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/שלט-עצור-#.m4a” /], as in: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/שלט-עצור-#.m4a” /]לא ראיתי את השלט – עברנו כבר את החנות? I didn’t see the sign – have we passed the shop? A stop sign is שלט עצור[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/שלט-עצור-#.m4a” /] – literally, sign (of) “stop!” For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/שלט-עצור-#.m4a”…
מַנְהִיגוּת listen and repeat Can’t read Hebrew yet? In the Torah portion to be read this Shabbat by Jews around the world, Moses is informed that he won’t be leading the People of Israel into the promised land. His response, defining his role as the leader, gets me every year: יִפְקֹד…