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/2014/10/שפיות-1.m4a” /]שְׁפִיּוּת The biblical story tells of the foreign prophet בלעם[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/שפיות-2.m4a” /] (Balaam): [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/שפיות-3.m4a” /]וַיֵּלֶךְ שֶׁפִי and he walked relaxedly (alternative translation: up to a bare hill) Mishnaic Hebrew takes שפי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/שפיות-4.m4a” /] to imply a state of physical… or mental calmness – sanity, in contrast to a state of mental disturbance – insanity. In Hebrew, שפיות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/שפיות-1.m4a”…
חכמה This one’s to my friend Mark Whelan from… England, LA, Germany, etc. Thanks for the request (the rest of you can request words as well!) הוּא אִישׁ חָכָם (hoo eesh hah-KHAHM) means he is a wise man. It’s used also to mean he is a smart man. So, for instance, if a…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/לא-היה-ולא-נברא-#.m4a” /]לֹא הָיָה וְלֹא נִבְרָא To express that something never took place, you could say זה אף פעם לא קרה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/לא-היה-ולא-נברא-#.m4a” /] or זה מעולם לא קרה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/לא-היה-ולא-נברא-#.m4a” /]. But Hebrew has a more special expression for this: לא היה ולא נברא[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/לא-היה-ולא-נברא-#.m4a” /] – literally, it was not and was never created. For…
לַעֲצוֹר, לְהַפְסִיק While English has to stop and to halt, Hebrew has לעצור and להפסיק. לעצור is to stop and basically stand still. You can also לעצור someone else, as in: עצר אותי שוטר כי לא עצרתי בתמרור עצור. A cop stopped me because I hadn’t stopped at a stop sign. (The true story is…