announcements from Ktzat Ivrit and Ulpan La-Inyan

  קָרְבָּן  listen and repeat Can’t read Hebrew yet?     Today, not much animal sacrifice is going on in Israel or elsewhere in the world. So the term that once referred to sacrificing an animal – קָרְבָּן listen and repeat – has been revived to refer to a person being “sacrificed” by circumstances – a victim….

Can’t read Hebrew yet? שַׁעֲוָה  listen and repeat   The Israelites in the desert would still have gotten in trouble, but they would also have saved themselves a lot of money had they used wax instead of gold when they made the calf.   They could have painted it gold.   The Modern Hebrew word…

  קָהָל  listen and repeat Can’t read Hebrew yet?     The Hebrew word for audience is quite an ancient one, as Moses would address the audience – הַקָּהָל listen and repeat – of the wandering People of Israel for forty years in the desert.   A modern example:   הַקָּהָל מַקְשִׁיב. The audience is listening.  listen    The…