listen and repeat.having trouble seeing the print? לָגֶשֶׁת Check out Ulpan La-Inyan’s winter course offerings! About a year ago I did an entry on drawing close to someone, לְהִתְקָרֵב (leh-heet-kah-REV). That word means not only to draw close emotionally, but also to physically shorten the distance between two people, or one person and an object –…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/שרוכים-#.m4a” /]שְׂרוֹכִים Here’s another word whose first letter is שׂ[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/שרוכים-#.m4a” /] making a s sound: שרוכים[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/שרוכים-#.m4a” /] – shoelaces. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/שרוכים-#.m4a” /]תקשור את השרוכים, דוד, אחרת אתה תיפול! Tie your (the) shoelaces, David, otherwise you’ll fall! (see full conversation) A single shoelace is שרוך[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/שרוכים-#.m4a” /].
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/שמרן-#.m4a” /]שַׁמְרָן, שַׁמְרָנִית In the US, conservative is almost synonymous with politically right-wing. In Israel, someone conservative – שמרן[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/שמרן-#.m4a” /] or שמרנית[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/שמרן-#.m4a” /] – refers to the personality trait meaning of the word, while ימני[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/שמרן-#.m4a” /] (masculine) or ימנית[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/שמרן-#.m4a” /] (feminine) is someone right-wing. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/שמרן-#.m4a” /]הוא מאוד…
אַהֲבָה The Hebrew word for love – אַהֲבָה– appears to be related to the Aramaic root, י.ה.ב (y.h.b) meaning giving. Those who gave their lives (and those who risk their lives every day), so that the people of Israel and the Jewish people the world over could celebrate independence tonight, did so out of a…