חֹמֶר לְשִׁנּוּן Review Material Can’t read Hebrew yet? Review, practice and test yourself on this week’s doses of Hebrew! Flashcards Game Test שַׁבָּת שָׁלוֹם, וְסוֹף שָׁבוּעַ נָעִים! Shabbat Shalom, and have a nice weekend!
שׁוֹפֵט Can’t read Hebrew yet? We’ve seen that מִשְׁפָּטrefers to that unit of speech or writing called sentence, and that its root is שׁ.פ.ט (sh.p.t) meaning judgment. Likewise, a judge in most courts is a שׁוֹפֵט or שׁוֹפֶטֶת(male and female, respectively). An example from this week’s Torah portion: שֹׁפְטִים וְשֹׁטְרִים תִּתֵּן לְךָ…
בֵּית הַמִּשְׁפָּט הָעֶלְיוֹן Can’t read Hebrew yet? Hebrew uses a lot of acronyms. One example is that for בֵּית הַמִּשְׁפָּט הַגָּבוֹהַּ לְצֶדֶק – the High Court of Justice: בָּגָ”ץ . Focusing on social justice including claims against government agencies, בג”ץ is a division of the supreme court, בֵּית הַמִּשְׁפָּט הָעֶלְיוֹן – literally, the…
מִשְׁטָרָה Can’t read Hebrew yet? The Hebrew word for police in the general sense, as in “the police,” is מִשְׁטָרָה . It derives from the root שׁ.ט.ר (sh.t.r), also the root of שׁוֹטֵר , and שׁוֹטֶרֶת , a police officer (male and female, respectively). The word falls into the same noun-forming template as…
מִשְׁפָּט Can’t read Hebrew yet? The Hebrew word for sentence – as in “These words form a sentence.” – is מִשְׁפָּט . It comes from the root שׁ.פ.ט (sh.p.t) meaning judgment. For example: הַיֶּלֶד שֶׁהִפְרִיעַ בַּשִּׁיעוּר נִדְרַשׁ לִכְתּוֹב מִשְׁפָּטִים עַל הַלּוּחַ. The boy who interrupted class was required to write…
חֹמֶר לְשִׁנּוּן Review Material Can’t read Hebrew yet? Review, practice and test yourself on this week’s doses of Hebrew! Flashcards Game Test שַׁבָּת שָׁלוֹם, וְסוֹף שָׁבוּעַ נָעִים! Shabbat Shalom, and have a nice weekend!
עוּגַת שְׁמָרִים Can’t read Hebrew yet? I have a Hungarian-Israeli grandmother. She makes delicious goulash, paprika chicken and other signature Hungarian dishes. But the best of her kitchen is her neighborhood-famous yeast cake – עוּגַת שְׁמָרִים . Broken down: עוּגָה means cake, while עוּגַת means cake of …
מְאֹד טָעִים Can’t read Hebrew yet? Yesterday, we saw that the ah-EE vowel pattern makes a Hebrew concept “-able” or “-ible”, as in the word for edible (“eat-able”) – אָכִיל . Another word of the same structure is the one for tasty, or worthy of being tasted, able to…
אָכִיל Can’t read Hebrew yet? In English, to express that an object or concept is capable of doing something, we usually add the suffix -able or -ible, as in reasonable and edible. Sometimes we add -ous as a suffix to express the same, as in poisonous – something that is…
פִּטְרִיּוֹת, אִטְרִיּוֹת Can’t read Hebrew yet? Some words are good to learn in pairs. The Hebrew words for mushroom and noodles are a great example. Mushrooms in Hebrew are פִּטְרִיּוֹת , while a single mushroom is a פִּטְרִיָּה . Noodles are אִטְרִיּוֹת , while a noodle is an…
לְהַאֲכִיל Can’t read Hebrew yet? Since the topics in this week’s Torah portion tend to revolve around food, I’ll dedicate this week’s entries to that favorite pastime – eating. To eat is לֶאֱכוֹל . The root is א.כ.ל (a.k.l), and it’s a simple verb. Plugging that root into the causative verb form, we get,…