make the Hebrew you learned this week YOURS TO KEEP
צַלְיָנוּת, עֲלִיָּה לָרֶגֶל Can’t read Hebrew yet? General Pilgrimage Various religions the word over recommend or require pilgrimages to holy sites. The generic term for pilgrimage in a given religion is צַלְיָנוּת , while a pilgrim is a צַלְיָן or a צַלְיָנִית , referring to a male or female, respectively. For example: מִילְיוֹנֵי צַלְיָנִים מֻסְלְמִים מַגִּיעִים…
having trouble seeing the print? קְנִיּוֹת Conversational-Hebrew classes in Jerusalem – Tel Aviv RBS – Rehovot – everywhere else Whereas שׁוֹפִּינְג is still the term that refers to that activity that my mother loves so much, shopping for clothes, Israelis call general shopping – like for food and electronics – קְנִיּוֹת . קְנֵה פָּחוֹת, חְיֵה יוֹתֵר buy less, live more (picture taken at a…
בַּעֲלִיָּיה Aliyah – Jewish immigration to Israel – means literally rising up. I’ve done it – perhaps you have as well. בעלייה means on the rise, so that we might say: העלייה לארץ בעלייה. Aliyah to Israel (the country) is on the rise. ב usually means in, but in this case it’s on. If that doesn’t make 100%…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/שפל-חדש-#.m4a” /]שֵׁפֶל חָדָשׁ The plain or the lowlands is השפלה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/שפל-חדש-#.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/שפל-חדש-#.m4a” /]אנחנו גרים בשפלה. We live on the plain. The root of השפלה is ש.פ.ל[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/שפל-חדש-#.m4a” /] meaning low. It also provides us with the word for low – שפל[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/שפל-חדש-#.m4a” /] – in the dramatic sense: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/שפל-חדש-#.m4a” /]עם הכתבה הזאת, העיתון…
יְקוּם Can’t read Hebrew yet? Biblical Hebrew uses the word יְקוּם to mean substance or existence – coarsely, stuff. For example, in the story of the Flood, G-d says: …וּמָחִיתִי אֶת כָּל הַיְּקוּם אֲשֶׁר עָשִׂיתִי מֵעַל פְּנֵי הָאֲדָמָה… …and I will wipe out all the substance that I made from the…