Author: Ami Steinberger

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/סוף-טוב-1.m4a” /]סוֹף טוֹב הַכֹּל טוֹב Née sous la plume de Shakespeare, l’expression tout est bien qui finit bien est devenue commune. Il m’arrive même parfois, après une dure semaine, lorsqu’enfin, d’une façon ou d’une autre les choses sont rentrées dans l’ordre, de me surprendre à souffler à haute voix :  סוף טוב הכול טוב[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/סוף-טוב-1.m4a”…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מייל-1.m4a” /]דֹּאַר אֶלֶקְטְרוֹנִי, מֵיְיל The proper Hebrew term for email (well, it’s half Hebrew) is דואר אלקטרוני[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מייל-2.m4a” /] – literally, electronic mail. The term is abbreviated in writing to דוא”ל. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מייל-3.m4a” /]שלחתי לה את הקובץ בדוא”ל. I sent her the file via email. But the word used far more commonly is simply מייל[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מייל-4.m4a”…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מקרא-1.m4a” /]מִקְרָא If you’re familiar with traditional Jewish literature, you probably know the common term for the Bible – תנ”ך[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מקרא-2.m4a” /], which stands for תורה, נביאים וכתובים[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מקרא-3.m4a” /] – Torah, Prophets, (Holy) Writings. But you may not be familiar with another term that refers to the Bible… or, more literally, Scripture. The term is מקרא[audioclip…

חֹמֶר לְשִׁנּוּן[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/review-1.mp3″ /] Review Material Can’t read Hebrew yet? You spent time on your Hebrew this week. Use these review materials to make it yours to keep. Flashcards . Scatter . Space Race . Test [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/review-2.mp3″ /]שַׁבָּת שָׁלוֹם, וְסוֹף שָׁבוּעַ נָעִים! Shabbat Shalom, and have a nice weekend!

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/סוף-טוב-1.m4a” /]סוֹף טוֹב הַכֹּל טוֹב You know that feeling after a difficult week, when things somehow all come together? When that happens to me, I think of the expression, sometimes even say it out loud – סוף טוב הכול טוב[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/סוף-טוב-1.m4a” /] – all’s well that ends well. The expression sounds less Shakespearean in Hebrew,…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/גמר-1.m4a” /]חֲצִי גְּמָר We’ve seen that לגמור[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/גמר-2.m4a” /] is one of the words for to finish in Hebrew. While that word is finding less and less public usage, its root ג.מ.ר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/גמר-3.m4a” /] thrives in sports, reality TV and academia in the word גמר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/גמר-4.m4a” /] – end, completion, termination. It appears in terms such as עבודת…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/לגמור-1.m4a” /]לִגְמוֹר, לְסַיֵּם Modern Hebrew has two common words for to finish. לגמור[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/לגמור-2.m4a” /], the word used in the Bible, is probably the better-known one to people who are familiar with Hebrew but who are not native speakers. לגמור is used in Modern Hebrew primarily to mean to finish something – it is a transitive verb, one…