having trouble seeing the print? הֲשָׂמָה DEADLINE TOMORROW! Check out Ulpan La-Inyan’s winter course offerings! photo by Unhindered by Talent To put or to place something down, in Hebrew, is the simple פעל verb, לָשִׂים (lah-SEEM). Its root is שׂ.י.מ (s.y.m) Applying that ancient Hebrew word to the commercial world of today, we get לְהָשׂים (leh-hah-SEEM) – to place a…
having trouble seeing the print? כַּרְטִיס אַשְׁרַאי DEADLINE THIS THURSDAY! Check out Ulpan La-Inyan’s winter course offerings! from Ynet.co.il If you’ve taken our Level 1 class or otherwise have some basic Hebrew under your belt, you likely know the word for card or ticket: כַּרְטִיס (kahr-TEES). This word is borrowed from the ancient Greek χάρτης (chartēs) meaning…
having trouble seeing the print? מְהַמֵּם DEADLINE THIS THURSDAY! Check out Ulpan La-Inyan’s winter course offerings! image compliments of Lioz Guttman, Ulpan La-Inyan instructor in Tel Aviv It hasn’t been an easy couple of weeks for the various religious groups within Jewish Israel. The posted presented to the left of this text makes light…
having trouble seeing the print? שִׁלֹה Check out Ulpan La-Inyan’s winter course offerings! sunrise over Shiloh of today This one’s for June and Elisheva at AACI, Jerusalem. The name שִׁלֹה (shee-LOH) appears in the Torah portion to be read tomorrow by Jews the world over. It appears more often, however, in…
having trouble seeing the print? מְשִׁיבוֹן Check out Ulpan La-Inyan’s winter course offerings! If you’ve called someone in Israel on their cell phone and didn’t manage to get through, chances are you’ve heard the following message: שָׁלוֹם, הִגַּעְתֶּם לַמְּשִׁיבוֹן הַסֶּלוֹלָרִי שֶׁל… (shah-LOHM, hee-GAH-tem lah-meh-shee-VOHN hah-seh-loh-LAH-ree shel…) Hello, you’ve reached the cellular answering…
having trouble seeing the print? גִּיחָה Check out Ulpan La-Inyan’s winter course offerings! How to say “sally” in Hebrew? But what does it mean in English? A sally is “a sudden rush forward; a leap,” according to TheFreeDictionary.com. Consider the expression, he sallied forth across the world. In Modern Hebrew, one might say, הוּא יָצָא…
having trouble seeing the print? זֶפֶת Check out Ulpan La-Inyan’s winter course offerings! בּוֹרוֹת הַזֶּפֶת לָה בְּרֵאָה (boh-ROHT hah-ZEH-fet lah-BREH-ah) the La Brea Tar Pits The word for tar appears in next week’s Torah portion as one of the materials which seals the floating basket of baby Moses. The word in Biblical as…
having trouble seeing the print? בִּקּוּר Check out Ulpan La-Inyan’s winter course offerings! לבקר (leh-vah-KEHR) is to visit. Thus, following the patterns of the active-intensive פיעל verb, a visit is a בִּקּוּר (bee-KOOR). Visiting the sick is ביקור חוֹלִים (bee-KOOR khoh-LEEM), while a visitor center is מֶרְכַּז מְבַקִּרִים (mehr-KAHZ meh-vah-keh-REEM). Something that might help you remember the word ביקור is that it rhymes with the Hebrew term for acupuncture – דִּקּוּר סִינִי (dee-KOOR SEE-nee) –…
having trouble seeing the print? מָסָךְ Check out Ulpan La-Inyan’s winter course offerings! The flat object emanating light, text and images you’re probably looking at right now, a monitor, is called in Hebrew a מָסָך (mah-SAHKH). This word goes all the way back to the Torah, in which a מסך – a…
having trouble seeing the print? לָגֶשֶׁת Check out Ulpan La-Inyan’s winter course offerings! About a year ago I did an entry on drawing close to someone, לְהִתְקָרֵב (leh-heet-kah-REV). That word means not only to draw close emotionally, but also to physically shorten the distance between two people, or one person and an object –…
having trouble seeing the print? תְּלַת-מֵמַד Check out Ulpan La-Inyan’s winter course offerings! Modern Hebrew borrows words from Aramaic for many official and legal terms. Using the word three as an adjective is one such case, as in the phrase meaning three-dimensional space: תְּלַת-מֵמַד (tlaht meh-MAHD). תלת is the Aramaic word for Hebrew’s three – שָׁלֹש (shah-LOHSH). Note that…