having trouble seeing the print? לְהַאֲצִיל סַמְכוּיוֹת brought to you by Ulpan La-Inyan teaching Hebrew in English-speaking communities throughout Israel and online Check us out! In the Torah portion to be read tomorrow by Jews around the world, G-d eases מֹשֶׁה – Moses (moh-SHEH) of some of his burden in leading the Children of Israel by stating…
Special announcement:Live Hebrew course onlineStarting June 27(your daily dose of Hebrew follows) We are offering our world-class conversational Hebrew course for beginners, online via Skype, starting June 27. The course will meet twice a week for two hours, for eight weeks. To ensure video quality, the class size is limited to five students.Get a taste of…
having trouble seeing the print? לְהִתְחַכֵּם brought to you by Ulpan La-Inyan teaching Hebrew in English-speaking communities throughout Israel and online Check us out! Along the theme of wisdom that we touched upon earlier this week is the behavior of using intelligence and wisdom for purposes of self exploitation. In English we call this…
having trouble seeing the print? רַמְזוֹר brought to you by Ulpan La-Inyan teaching Hebrew in English-speaking communities throughout Israel and online Check us out! Yesterday we probed the Hebrew expression, דַּי לַחֲכִּימָא בִּרְמִיזָא (DAH-ee lah-khah-KEE-mah beer-MEE-zah), an equivalent of the English, a word to the wise is sufficient. The Aramaic word רְמִיזָא (reh-MEE-zah, or classically,…
having trouble seeing the print? דַּי לַחֲכִּימָא בִּרְמִיזָא brought to you by Ulpan La-Inyan teaching Hebrew in English-speaking communities throughout Israel and online Check us out! The Vilna Gaon There are those who need a message repeated to them over and over… and there are those who need to hear it just once….
having trouble seeing the print? מַסְפִּיק, דַּי brought to you by Ulpan La-Inyan teaching Hebrew throughout Israel and online There are two words in Hebrew that mean enough. First word by Eran Finkle taken in Bet Yehoshua, Israel מַסְפִּיק (mahs-PEEK) comes from the root ס.פ.ק (s.p.k) meaning sufficiency. מספיק is an adjective and adverb deriving from the active-causative הפעיל…
having trouble seeing the print? לָשֵׂאת brought to you by Ulpan La-Inyan teaching Hebrew throughout Israel and online Courses starting Sunday around the country! The Torah portion to be read this Shabbat by Jews around the world is called נָשֹא (nah-SOH), which, literally, means lift up or carry (in the Biblical context, it means take a census or lift…
having trouble seeing the print? מִגְדָּר brought to you by Ulpan La-Inyan teaching Hebrew throughout Israel and online Courses starting Sunday around the country! We’ve seen the Hebrew root ג.ד.ר used in its original sense to mean fence – גָּדֵר (gah-DEHR), as well as in a modern application to mean definition or computer setting – הַגְדָּרָה (hahg-dah-RAH). Another…