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[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/בין-היתר-#.m4a” /]בֵּין הַיֶּתֶר The Hebrew word for between or among is בין[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/בין-היתר-#.m4a” /], as in: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/בין-היתר-#.m4a” /]כדי להגיע לכביש הראשי צריך ללכת בין הבתים. In order to get to the main street you need to walk between the houses. Among other things is בין היתר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/בין-היתר-#.m4a” /] – literally, among the rest. For example: [audioclip…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/לערוך-שולחן-#.m4a” /]לַעֲרֹךְ שֻׁלְחָן Among the stages of סדר פסח[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/לערוך-שולחן-#.m4a” /] – the Passover Seder, שולחן עורך[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/לערוך-שולחן-#.m4a” /] means setting the table, or literally – a table, he sets. To set a table is לערוך שולחן[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/לערוך-שולחן-#.m4a” /] – literally, to set/arrange a table. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/לערוך-שולחן-#.m4a” /]ילדים, ערכתם כבר את השולחן? Kids,…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/ניתוח-אנליטי-#.m4a” /]נִיתּוּחַ, אָנָלִיזָה, נִיתּוּחַ אָנָלִיטִי The Hebrew word ניתוח[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/ניתוח-אנליטי-#.m4a” /] appears already in Biblical Hebrew, where it comes close to the modern usage of the word as surgery (taking apart the body for medical purposes). For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/ניתוח-אנליטי-#.m4a” /]הוא צריך לעבור ניתוח. He needs to undergo surgery. Now, ניתוח also means analysis –…
חֹמֶר לְשִׁנּוּן[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/review-1.mp3″ /] Review Material You spent time on your Hebrew this week. Use these review materials to make it yours to keep. To take full advantage of the review material, click on “Choose a study mode” in the bottom right corner of the box above. [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/review-2.mp3″ /]שבת שלום, וסוף…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/פנאן-#.m4a” /]כֵּיף, פָנׇאן כיף[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/פנאן-#.m4a” /] is the most common word Israelis use to mean fun, as in: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/פנאן-#.m4a” /]איך היה לכם בים? היה לכם כיף? How was it (for you guys) at the beach? Was it fun (for you guys)? כיף comes from Arabic (كيف), where it has the same meaning. There’s…
אַנְטִישֵׁמִיּוּת listen and repeat Can’t read Hebrew yet? Tomorrow is יוֹם הַשּׁוֹאָה, Israel’s national Holocaust (Memorial) Day. As we have seen in the past few weeks, antisemitism is alive and well. The Hebrew term for this phenomenon is אַנְטִישֵׁמִיּוּת , which connects the Latin prefix anti– with Semite – שֵׁמִי (literally, a descendant…
