– the light – that is at the edge of, where קָצֶה means edge – the tunnelחֹמֶר לְשִׁנּוּן[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/review-1.mp3″ /] Review Material You spent time on your Hebrew this week. Use these review materials to make it yours to keep. To take full advantage of the review material, click on “Choose a study mode” in the bottom right corner of the box above. [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/review-2.mp3″ /]שבת שלום, וסוף…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מחתרת-1.mp3″ /]מַחְתֶּרֶת I’m not referring here to the London Underground. Rather, I’m referring to illegal activity done in secret. The word is מַחְתֶּרֶת[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מחתרת-1.mp3″ /], which nowadays refers to an underground force. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מחתרת-2.mp3″ /]לִפְנֵי שֶׁהָיָה צה”ל, הָיוּ הַמַּחְתָּרוֹת. Before there was the IDF, there were the underground forces. This word first…
שֶׁבֶר Once I was riding my bike on Azza Street in Jerusalem, made a bad turn and fell with my hand breaking the fall. I came away with a שבר – a fracture. שבר refers not only to a physical break or fracture, but to many other things as well: a fraction, a failure, and even emotional anguish. For example: כשנחרב…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/להקפיץ-#.m4a” /]לְהַקְפִּיץ To jump, in Hebrew, is לקפוץ[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/להקפיץ-#.m4a” /]. Likewise, to bounce – or to cause something to jump – is להקפיץ[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/להקפיץ-#.m4a” /]. But this הפעיל verb has additional meanings including to make someone angry (to cause their blood pressure to jump), and to give someone a ride (to bounce them from one place to another,…
[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…