(sometimes spelled and pronounced הַפְלָיָה ). 
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/אבו-דרך-#.m4a” /]אֶבֶן דֶּרֶךְ In the British Commonwealth and in the United States, people know what a mile is. People in most other countries don’t, so the term milestone translates to something else. In Hebrew, it translates to אבן דרך[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/אבו-דרך-#.m4a” /] – a stone on the path. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/אבו-דרך-#.m4a” /]הילד הגיע לכל אבני…
לְהִתְקָרֵב Earlier this week, we saw the root ק.ר.ב (k.r.b), meaning closeness, used in a variety of forms. We saw לְהַקְרִיב (le-hahk-REEV) – to sacrifice, give something up or to bring something close – and its passive form, מֻקְרָב (mook-RAHV). These are the causative forms (הפעיל and הופעל). We saw לִקְרָב (leek-RAHV) – to draw…
תְּשׁוּקָה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/תשוקה-1.mp3″ /] Like English, Hebrew has several words for to yearn, to long for: לְהִתְגַּעְגֵּעַ[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/תשוקה-2.mp3″ /] is to long for or to miss someone, so that גַּעְגוּעִים[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/תשוקה-3.mp3″ /] are longings. לְהִכָּסֵף[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/תשוקה-4.mp3″ /] the verb and כִּסּוּפִים[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/תשוקה-5.mp3″ /] the noun are more flowery terms for this. And then there’s לְהִשְׁתּוֹקֵק[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/תשוקה-6.mp3″…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/שקט-1.m4a” /]שֶׁקֶט, שָׁקֵט If you went to Jewish school in the States, you may know the patient exhortation of Hebrew teachers, in sing-song form: שקט, בבקשה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/שקט-2.m4a” /] – quiet, please! Or from the less patient teachers (or the more demanding students), simply: !שקט[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/שקט-3.m4a” /] – quiet! In any case, שקט means quiet…