אחריות I. Thesis – תֵזָה (TEH-zah) On the one hand, G-d takes the Israelites out of the Egyptian bondage – חֵרוּת (heh-ROOT) – see yesterday’s post. II. Antithesis – אַנְטִיתֵזָה (AHN-tee-teh-zah) On the other hand, the phrase that Moses utters on behalf of G-d, “Let my people go…” (שַלַּח אֶת…
Suppose you’ve got a tub of חוּמוּס (KHOO-moos) – hummus – in the fridge, and you’re having guests over that love to dip into it. You might say, together, we’ll polish off this חומוס. In Hebrew, you’d say, בְּיַחַד, נְחַסֵּל אֶת הַחוּמוּס הַזֶּה (be-YAH-khahd, ne-khah-SEHL et hah-KHOO-moos hah-ZEH). The word for to finish something…
having trouble seeing the print? בְּקִרְבַת מָקוֹם To say in Hebrew that something is close, you’d use a form of the word קָרוֹב (kah-ROHV). Likewise, you could talk about the nearby town – הָעֲיָרָה הַקְּרוֹבָה (hah-ah-yah-RAH hah-keh-roh-VAH). In that case, קרובה (a form of קרוב) is describing the town – the word is an adjective….
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/אונייה-1.m4a” /]אֳנִיָּה, סְפִינָה Hebrew has two words for ship, both appearing in Biblical Hebrew: אונייה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/אונייה-2.m4a” /] and ספינה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/אונייה-3.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/אונייה-4.m4a” /]לחברת השייט הזאת יש עשר אונייות נוסעים. This cruise company has ten passenger ships. and [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/אונייה-5.m4a” /]הוא שירת בחיל הים בספינת טילים. He served in the navy on a…
having trouble seeing the print? יֵשׁ רַגְלַיִם לַדָּבָר Learn to Speak Hebrew… With Us The rabbis of old taught that שֶׁקֶר, אֵין לוֹ רַגְלַיִם – a lie does not have legs. They were referring to the graphical appearance of the word שֶׁקֶר – lie – none of whose three letters have…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/מגפה-#.m4a” /]מַגֵּפָה The Hebrew word מגפה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/מגפה-#.m4a” /] can mean either epidemic or pandemic, but to reflect that it is global, we say מגפה עולמית[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/מגפה-#.m4a” /] – literally, world pandemic. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/מגפה-#.m4a” /]מתי כבר תיגמר המגפה העולמית הזאת? When will this global pandemic end already? מגפה comes from the root נ.ג.פ[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/מגפה-#.m4a” /],…