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The Rabbis pointed out that the Hebrew word for truth – אֶמֶת (eh-MEHT) – begins with the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet, א, continues with one of the two middle letters, מ, and ends with the last letter, ת. This Biblical Hebrew word therefore encompasses the gamut of reality.
The word for real is אֲמִתִּי (ah-mee-TEE).
The word for reality, however, is מְצִיאוּת (meh-tsee-OOT) – that which is found.
Those who seek אמת are open to hearing Israel’s perspective on this morning’s events that involved the Israeli Navy and the so-called humanitarian ships to Gaza. The video below (can’t see it?) is footage taken by the IDF – it documents the attack upon our soldiers, though perhaps not as effectively as the flotilla’s pre-meditating PR crew documents their side.
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/איפוס-#.m4a” /]אִיפּוּס The Hebrew word for to reset is the פיעל verb לאפס[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/איפוס-#.m4a” /] – literally, to bring back to zero (the word for zero is אפס[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/איפוס-#.m4a” /]). For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/איפוס-#.m4a” /]שכחתי את הסיסמה – אני צריך לאפס אותה. I forgot my (the) password – I (a male) need to reset it. Reset…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מימוש-עצמי-1.m4a” /]מִמּוּשׁ עַצְמִי If you’ve spent some time around Israelis, you’ve almost certainly heard the word ממש[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מימוש-עצמי-2.m4a” /]. It literally means substance, but it’s far more commonly used to mean really, truly, very, exactly, etc. It’s a super-useful word. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מימוש-עצמי-3.m4a” /]זה ממש יקר! That’s really expensive! Using the three letters of…
תָּמִים, נָאִיבִי Can’t read Hebrew yet? The proper Hebrew word for naive is תָּמִים , as appears in Danny Sanderson’s זֶה הַכֹּל בִּשְׁבִילֵךְ – This Is All for You: אוֹ, דּוֹן קִישׁוֹט, אַל תִּהְיֶה כָּל כָּךְ תָּמִים. Oh, Don Quixote, don’t be so naive. But since this word has…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/טיול-מאורגן-#.m4a” /]טִיּוּל מְאֻרְגָּן Remember when this existed? It’ll return one day. But while we’re waiting, let’s learn how to say it in Hebrew. טיול[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/טיול-מאורגן-#.m4a” /] is a tour, usually an informal one, for example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/טיול-מאורגן-#.m4a” /]נסענו לטיול בצפון – ביקרנו בכל מעיין שרק היה אפשר. We went on a trip (tour) in the…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/מוקש-#.m4a” /]מוֹקֵשׁ If you’ve been hiking before in the Golan Heights, you may have seen a sign like the one pictured here: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/מוקש-#.m4a” /]מוקשים – ה(י)זהר! Mines – take caution! The word מוקש[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/מוקש-#.m4a” /] first appears in the Bible, where it refers to a snare – something meant to sabotage someone along their…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/סגנון-#.m4a” /]סִגְנוֹן There is a Hebrew slang word סטייל[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/סגנון-#.m4a” /]. This means class in English, or style as in he’s got style. The more proper word for style is סגנון[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/סגנון-#.m4a” /]. It also could mean type For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/סגנון-#.m4a” /]זאת קהילה בסגנון שלי! This is my type (style) of community! Lifestyle can be either סגנון חיים[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/סגנון-#.m4a”…