use it or lose it – review of this week’s doses of Hebrew

  הֶחְזֵר כַּסְפִּי  listen and repeat Can’t read Hebrew yet?     A refund in Hebrew is הֶחְזֵר כַּסְפִּי listen and repeat – literally, a returning of funds. But more often than not, you’ll hear people abbreviating the expression to simply החזר listen and repeat.   For example:   תִּרְאִי אִם תּוּכְלִי לְקַבֵּל הֶחְזֵר מֵהַחֲנוּת. See if you can…

  שַׁחַר  listen and repeat Can’t read Hebrew yet?     The morning prayer in Judaism is called שַׁחֲרִית  listen and repeat, as it is derived from the word for dawn, שַׁחַר  listen and repeat. In Hebrew, we talk about the dawn as it is a physical object like the sun and say that the dawn rises, as in:   הֵם…