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[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/ביטוח-#.m4a” /]בִּטּוּחַ If you live in Israel, you’re bound to have encountered ביטוח לאומי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/ביטוח-#.m4a” /] – National Insurance (full name is המוסד לביטוח לאומי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/ביטוח-#.m4a” /] – the National Insurance Institute), the government agency that provides free health care and lots of other social services. ביטוח[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/ביטוח-#.m4a” /] means insurance. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/ביטוח-#.m4a” /]בישראל…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/משרפה-#.m4a” /]מִשְׂרָפָה Today is יום השואה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/משרפה-#.m4a” /] – Holocaust (Memorial) Day, as observed in Israel. Today’s video includes a personal note, while this written post is about the Hebrew word for crematorium – משרפה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/משרפה-#.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/משרפה-#.m4a” /]באושוויץ היו חמש משרפות. At Auschwitz there were five crematoria. The official pronunciation…
לְחַסֵּל Check out our summer Hebrew classes for adults and teens! This week the arch terrorist Osama Bin Laden was… taken out. The (non-slang) way of saying that in Hebrew is הוּא חֻסַּל (hoo khoo-SAHL). חוּסל (khoo-SAHL) is a “passive-intensive” פועל (poo-AHL) verb – he was taken out. To say, they took him out,…
אנוכיות If you know a bit of Hebrew, you’re familiar with the word אֲנִי (ah-NEE – I). A synonym for אני is אָנֹכִי (ah-noh-KHEE). It’s used in more formal contexts, when someone really want to draw attention to who’s talking (the royal me). Therefore, a Modern-Hebrew invention is the word אֲנוֹכִיוּת (ah-noh-khee-YOOT) – or…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/שיטה-#.m4a” /]שִׁיטָה In Biblical Hebrew you may come across עץ השיטה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/שיטה-#.m4a” /] – the acacia tree. While the word for method – שיטה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/שיטה-#.m4a” /] – is spelled and pronounced the same as the word for the tree, the two are not related: the root of שיטה the tree is ש.נ.ט[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/שיטה-#.m4a” /], while…