having trouble seeing the print? בְּעִקְבִיּוּת Check out our world-class conversational Hebrew program The root of the words having to do with consistency – ע.ק.ב (a.k.b), meaning heel – appears for the first time in the Torah portion to be read this Shabbat by Jews around the world, in which the third forefather, יַעֲקֹב (Jacob), in introduced. There are several…
having trouble seeing the print? לִדְפוֹק Never experienced Ulpan La-Inyan? We’re offering free demo classes throughout the summer. Sign up for yours now! This active-simple פָּעַל verb means to knock – לִדְפוֹק (leed-FOHK). It appears in the Biblical book, שִׁיר הַשִּׁירִים – The Song of Songs (sheer hah-shee-REEM), in the phrase, קוֹל דּוֹדִי דּוֹפֵק – the…
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having trouble seeing the print? לְהִתְאוֹשֵׁשׁ Enter code “ULI” for an exclusive Ulpan La-Inyan discount. To “get better” from an illness is לְהַבְרִיא (leh-hahv-REE) or לְהַחְלִים (leh-hahkh-LEEM). But recovery doesn’t have to be from an illness – it could be from a shock or a spiritual low as well. The Hebrew word for to recover is לְהִתְאוֹשֵׁש (leh-heet-oh-SHESH),…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/תביא-לי-1.m4a” /]תֵּן לִי, תָּבִיא לִי לתת[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/תביא-לי-2.m4a” /] means to give, so that תן לי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/תביא-לי-3.m4a” /] means give me when spoken to a male, and תני לי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/תביא-לי-4.m4a” /] means the same when spoken to a female. Another, informal way of saying give me is תביא לי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/תביא-לי-5.m4a” /] to a male and תביאי לי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/תביא-לי-6.m4a” /]…