דָּתִי לְאֻמִּי Can’t read Hebrew yet? Modern Orthodoxy is a way of Jewish life that fuses embrace of Jewish law and tradition, with engagement in contemporary life in a foreign culture. Between the lines, the Modern Orthodox Jew makes a statement that s/he is happy to live and absorb surrounding foreign (non-Jewish)…
אַרְצוֹת הַבְּרִית Can’t read Hebrew yet? Earlier this week we saw the Hebrew versions of a couple of “united” political bodies: הָאוּמוֹת הַמְּאֻחָדוֹת (הָאוּ”ם) the United Nations (the UN) and הַמַּמְלָכָה הַמְּאֻחֶדֶת the United Kingdom Both of these use the word מְאֻחָד – unified. …
The online front page of one of Israel’s major newspapers, יְדִיעוֹת אַחֲרוֹנוֹת (ye-dee-OHT ah-khah-roh-NOHT) reads: יְצִיאַת תּוּנִיסִיָּה: “הָפְכָה לְעִירַאק בִּן לַיְלָה” (ye-tsee-AHT too-NEE-see-yah: “hahf-KHAH le-ee-RAHK been LAH-ee-lah”) – Exodus from Tunisia: “Turned into Iraq overnight.” Here’s the article. To say that something occurs overnight, you’d use the expression, בִּן לַיְלָה (been…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/לקטוף-#.m4a” /]לִקְטוֹף פֶּרַח The Hebrew word for to pick or harvest something such as fruit or flowers is the simple verb לקטוף[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/לקטוף-#.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/לקטוף-#.m4a” /]כל יום שישי אבא קוטף פרחים בשביל אמא. Every Friday Dad picks flowers for Mom. Something picked or harvested is נקטף[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/לקטוף-#.m4a” /], from the נפעל verb form. נקטף is…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/כלים-1.m4a” /]כֵּלִים The Hebrew word for dishes is כלים[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/כלים-1.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/כלים-2.m4a” /]אני לא שומע אותך, אני שוטף כלים. I (a male) can’t hear you (a female), I’m washing (the) dishes. But כלים means dishes only in the plural. In the singular, כלי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/כלים-3.m4a” /] means vessel or tool, and is often used in conjunction with…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/להכניס-מילים-#.m4a” /]לְהַכְנִיס לוֹ מִלִּים לַפֶּה This expression translates from English: להכניס לו מילים לפה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/להכניס-מילים-#.m4a” /] – to put words into his mouth. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/להכניס-מילים-#.m4a” /]חבר’ה, תירגעו, אל תכניסו לי מילים לפה. Guys, calm down, don’t put words in my mouth. The expression להכניס לו מילים לפה means literally to put in, for…