[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/פיסוק-1.m4a” /]פִּסּוּק The Hebrew word for verse as in biblical verse is פסוק[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/פיסוק-2.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/פיסוק-3.m4a” /]בפרשת “כי תצא” יש מאה ועשרה פסוקים. There are one hundred ten verses in the portion of Ki Tetze. The root of פסוק is the same as that of פסקה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/פיסוק-4.m4a” /] – paragraph: פ.ס.ק[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/פיסוק-5.m4a” /], meaning…
אַנְטִישֵׁמִיּוּת Can’t read Hebrew yet? Tomorrow is יוֹם הַשּׁוֹאָה, Israel’s national Holocaust (Memorial) Day. As we have seen in the past few weeks, antisemitism is alive and well. The Hebrew term for this phenomenon is אַנְטִישֵׁמִיּוּת , which connects the Latin prefix anti– with Semite – שֵׁמִי (literally, a descendant of the…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/סידורים-#.m4a” /]סִדּוּרִים Looking at the word above, you might think I’m talking about prayer books. These are סידורים[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/סידורים-#.m4a” /] as well. But since סידור[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/סידורים-#.m4a” /] in its essence means putting things in order, it applies to both a prayer book with all the prayers set in the right order, as well as something that needs to…
having trouble seeing the print? לֶאֱהוֹב, לְחַבֵּב, לִמְצוֹא חֵן בְּעֵינֵי… learn Hebrew through Israeli music In English, there’s to like something (or someone), and then there’s to love something (or someone). Hebrew uses the word לֶאֱהוֹב (an active-simple פָּעַל verb) for both like and love, so that you’ll find people saying: הִיא אוֹהֶבֶת בְּרוֹקוֹלִי. She likes broccoli. just as…