[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…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/דרך-המלך-#.m4a” /]לַעֲלוֹת עַל דֶּרֶךְ הַמֶּלֶךְ This expression לעלות על דרך המלך[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/דרך-המלך-#.m4a” /] means literally to get on the king’s road – in Hebrew it refers to getting on the high road – a good, solid path after having experienced trials and tribulations. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/דרך-המלך-#.m4a” /]עוד פוש קטן בלימודים, ואת כבר תעלי על…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/לעשות-חיים-#.m4a” /]לַעֲשׂוֹת חַיִּים Israelis love life. That’s what put them at #12 this year in the World Happiness Report, and that’s the soul in the expression לעשות חיים[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/לעשות-חיים-#.m4a” /] – to have a good time, or literally, to make life. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/לעשות-חיים-#.m4a” /]תעשו חיים. ואל תשכחו להוציא איתכם את הזבל! Have a good…
לְהִתְפָּרֵעַ Can’t read Hebrew yet? For the Jews it’s been Passover, and for students around the world it’s been spring break. As parting advice for the latter, parents might tell their son: תַּעֲשֶׂה חַיִּים, אָבָל אַל תִּתְפָּרֵעַ יוֹתֵר מִדַּי. Have a good time (literally, make life), but don’t go too…