חֹמֶר לְשִׁנּוּן Review Material Can’t read Hebrew yet? Review, practice and test yourself on this week’s doses of Hebrew! Flashcards Game Test שַׁבָּת שָׁלוֹם, וְסוֹף שָׁבוּעַ נָעִים! Shabbat Shalom, and have a nice weekend!
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/להשפיע-1.m4a” /]לְהַשְׁפִּיעַ Earlier this week we saw the word for abundance – שפע[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/להשפיע-2.m4a” /]. Imagine a basket overflowing with fruit – that’s abundance. Plugging the word שפע into the active-causative verb form – overflowing to the point where it affects others – we get the word להשפיע[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/להשפיע-1.m4a” /] – to influence (to flow into). For example: [audioclip…
The Biblical Hebrew root ק.פ.א (k.p.a) is the concept of congealment or thickening, but the root has evolved to the point where today it means frozenness. Thus a מַקְפִּיא (mahk-PEE) is the Modern Hebrew word for freezer – the place where one places ice cream. To freeze something is לְהַקְפִּיא (le-hahk-PEE). To say, I’m freezing!,…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/מחנה-ריכוז-#.m4a” /]מַחֲנֵה רִכּוּז If ריכוז[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/מחנה-ריכוז-#.m4a” /] is concentration, מחנה ריכוז[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/מחנה-ריכוז-#.m4a” /] is concentration camp. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/מחנה-ריכוז-#.m4a” /]רוב הנרצחים בשואה נספו במחנות הריכוז. Most of those murdered in the Holocaust perished in the concentration camps. You may have noticed that מחנה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/מחנה-ריכוז-#.m4a” /], a masculine word, has an ות-[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/מחנה-ריכוז-#.m4a” /] ending…
קָשּׁוּב We need your feedback! Let us know what kind of Hebrew fall course schedule we might offer you! As I’ve continued reading the chapter on attachment in Daniel J. Siegel’s book, The Developing Mind, I’ve seen that infants learn their place the world by how much sensitivity their parents/caregivers show them. When…
מָאתַיִם, אַלְפַּיִם Can’t read Hebrew yet? Yesterday we saw the Hebrew terms for three hundred and three thousand – שְׁלֹשׁ מְאוֹת and שְׁלֹשֶׁת אֲלָפִים , respectively. Higher multiples of those numbers follow a pattern: אַרְבַּע מְאוֹת, אַרְבַּעַת אֲלָפִים – 400, 4000 חֲמֵשׁ מְאוֹת, חֲמֵשֶׁת אֲלָפִים – 500, 5000 …