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[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/מקשה-אחת-#.m4a” /]עָשׂוּי מִקְשָׁה אַחַת According to the Torah, the golden candelabra in the Temple (and Tabernacle) was made of a single piece – מקשה אחת[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/מקשה-אחת-#.m4a” /] – of solid gold. Made is עשוי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/מקשה-אחת-#.m4a” /] (or עשויה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/מקשה-אחת-#.m4a” /] for a grammatically-feminine object), so that we have: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/מקשה-אחת-#.m4a” /]המנורה הייתה עשויה מקשה…
how to say “early childhood” in Hebrew
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