how to say “hero” in Hebrew
לְהַמְחִישׁ Hear this word pronounced This week I introduced some of my students to a song by Ehud Banai called עֵגֶל הַזָּהָב (EH-ghel hah-zah-HAHV) – The Golden Calf, as Jews around the world will be reading its account this Shabbat. I’ll probably play the song with explanation next Wednesday on my radio show. My…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/מצופים-#.m4a” /]מְצוֹפִים The Hebrew word for to float is לצוף[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/מצופים-#.m4a” /], a simple verb of the root צ.ו.פ[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/מצופים-#.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/מצופים-#.m4a” /]היא לומדת לצוף על המים. She’s learning to float on the water. But for kids to safely have fun in the water before they learn to float and swim, floaties come in…
גּוֹרָלִי Hear this word pronounced Check out Ulpan La-Inyan demo classes – tonight in Raanana, tomorrow in Jerusalem! In the Book of Esther, the Jewish-Persian queen is faced with a fateful decision: either risk her life by attempting to persuade the king to spare the Jewish people, or sit “pretty” in the palace while her people…
having trouble seeing the print? פִּתָּרוֹן יְצִירָתִי Don’t miss the deadline! Our fall classes start October 30. Save 200 shekels by THIS TUESDAY, October 11. Sometimes a situation in life calls for a creative solution. Suppose, for example, you’re building a סֻכָּה (soo-KAH) – sukkah – in your backyard, and you realize that one of the three required solid sides,…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/לא-שווה-גרוש-#.m4a” /]לֹא שָׁוֶה גְּרוּשׁ Today in Israel, the currency is the new שקל[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/לא-שווה-גרוש-#.m4a” /] – Shekel, whose cent value (one hundredth) is the אגורה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/לא-שווה-גרוש-#.m4a” /] – Agora. But in earlier periods of the state, the cent value was the גרוש[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/לא-שווה-גרוש-#.m4a” /], a name brought over from Eastern Europe. So the expression, not worth a dime,…
סֶרֶט תִּעוּדִי listen and repeat Can’t read Hebrew yet? A film is a סֶרֶט listen and repeat, invoking the Biblical Hebrew word for ribbon (film fed through a projector is a ribbon). And while a (male) witness is an עֵד listen and repeat, documentation – the written account of that which is witnessed…