[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/קינמון-#.m4a” /]קִינָּמוֹן The Hebrew word for cinnamon is קינמון[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/קינמון-#.m4a” /]. Now, you might be thinking that this is another word borrowed from English. And while I wish I could say that the opposite is true, since קימנון appears in the Torah itself, which predates the English language by millenia, it’s far more likely…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/לייצא-1.m4a” /]לְיַצֵּא The simple verb לצאת[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/לייצא-2.m4a” /], of the root י.צ.א[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/לייצא-3.m4a” /], means to go out. Thus an exit is a יציאה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/לייצא-4.m4a” /]. As part of a global economy, Modern Hebrew needs a word for to export, so it plugs י.צ.א into the active-intensive form to create לייצא[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/לייצא-1.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/לייצא-5.m4a” /]החברה התחילה…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/חולה-קורונה-#.m4a” /]חוֹלֶה קוֹרוֹנָה When referring to someone with a disease, the English word patient sounds much nicer than its Hebrew equivalent – חולֶה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/חולה-קורונה-#.m4a” /] (a male) or חולָה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/חולה-קורונה-#.m4a” /] (a female), meaning literally sick one. In any case, a corona patient – literally, sick one of corona – is חולת קורונה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/חולה-קורונה-#.m4a” /] (a…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/הרהורים-1.m4a” /]הִרְהוּרִים While השתקפות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/הרהורים-2.m4a” /] is reflection in the visual sense, הרהור[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/הרהורים-3.m4a” /] is means reflection in the sense of thoughtfulness. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/הרהורים-4.m4a” /]היא עסוקה בהרהורי תשובה. She is occupied with thoughts (reflections) of repentance. One could also say that she is pensive – מהורהרת[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/הרהורים-5.m4a” /]. For a male, it’s מהורהר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/הרהורים-6.m4a” /]….
I’m reading a book written by a cousin of my grandmother’s, who was among those in Budapest that helped rescue Jews during the Holocaust. One of the missions he participated in was smuggling Jews across the Romanian border to safety, on their way to אֶרֶץ יִשְׂרָאֵל (EH-rets yees-rah-EL) – the Land of Israel. …
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