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[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/על-שפת-הנהר-1.m4a” /]עַל שְׂפַת הַנָּהָר The Hebrew word for lip is שפה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/על-שפת-הנהר-2.m4a” /]. Believe it or not, this word is quite versatile: it also means language and bank (of a river, a sea, etc). In a connected “of” (construct) state, שפה becomes שפת[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/על-שפת-הנהר-3.m4a” /], so that a river bank is שפת נהר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/על-שפת-הנהר-4.m4a” /] – literally, a bank…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/פוך-#.m4a” /]שְׂמִיכַת פּוּךְ You may know the Hebrew word for blanket – שמיכה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/פוך-#.m4a” /], but did you know its spelled with a שׂ[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/פוך-#.m4a” /] and not a ס[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/פוך-#.m4a” /]? Anyway, a duvet – that special quilt for winter – is שמיכת פוך[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/פוך-#.m4a” /] or simply פוך[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/פוך-#.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/פוך-#.m4a” /]איפה…
In 1949, my grandparents helped found a kibbutz near modern-day Modiin. The founders called it תחיה – basically, resurrection, since this was one of many Jewish settlements rising up in Israel only a few years after near-total destruction in Europe. In the coming years the kibbutz gave way to another agricultural settlement, and the standard…
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*** Yesterday’s dose’s sound files were mislinked, so you may have had trouble hearing them. My apologies. You can hear the sound files now by visiting this page. מַעֲקֶה Can’t read Hebrew yet? The Torah prescribes that homeowners put some kind of fencing or railing on their roofs, so that people don’t…