having trouble seeing the print? נִקּוּי יָבֵשׁ Check out our spring and summer courses in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Raanana, Efrat, Ramat Beit Shemesh and Tzfat Most of the cleaning that people tend to do for Passover involves water and other fluids. But some of the cleaning many people do does not involve wet substances at all. Dry cleaning is…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/משכנתא-1.m4a” /]מַשְׁכַּנְתָּא The English word mortgage derives from French, where the words mort (dead) and gage (pledge) combine to imply that this loan, this pledge to return the money, dies either when the loan is paid back in full, or when the borrower fails to pay it back. (Online Etymological Dictionary) The Hebrew word, משכנתא[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/משכנתא-1.m4a” /], also…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/עבריין-1.m4a” /]עֲבַרְיָן The other day we saw the Hebrew word for crime – פשע[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/עבריין-2.m4a” /]. פשע is crime in the general sense, while פשיעה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/עבריין-3.m4a” /] might refer to an individual crime or crime in a certain context such as a neighborhood. An offense, however, is an עבירה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/עבריין-4.m4a” /]. And an offender? That’s an עבריין[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/עבריין-1.m4a”…