– the light – that is at the edge of, where קָצֶה means edge – the tunnelלְזַהוֹת Explosives were planted yesterday on a public phone opposite בִּנְיָנֵי הָאוּמָה (been-yah-NEH-ee hah-oo-MAH) – The Buildings of the Nation. Had a man not noticed the suspicious-looking phone and alerted a group of teenagers standing by it to move away, the tragic attack of pure terror could have been a lot more so….
אֲסִיר תּוֹדָה The night after I fell off my bike, I woke up at 4am with pain that prompted me to get in a cab and head to the טֶרֶם (TEH-rem) urgent care center. They gave me a גֶּבֶס – cast (GHEH-ves) – because it wasn’t yet clear whether my scaphoid bone was broken or sprained. That…
having trouble seeing the print? מִסְתּוֹרִי What is Ulpan La-Inyan? Yesterday, we saw the Hebrew root ס.ת.ר (s.t.r) in action, in the word for to conceal – לְהַסְתִּיר . We saw that the Talmud connects the root ס.ת.ר with the name of the biblical heroine of the Purim story, אֶסְתֵּר – Esther. Another application of ס.ת.ר is…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/כיכר-לחם-#.m4a” /]כִּיכַּר לֶחֶם If you’ve taken our Level 1 course, you know the word for traffic circle or roundabout: כיכר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/כיכר-לחם-#.m4a” /]. But did you know that כיכר (full term – כיכר לחם[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/כיכר-לחם-#.m4a” /]) originally referred to a loaf of bread? Not a loaf in the rectangular shape we’re used to seeing on the shelves…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/עצלן-#.m4a” /]עַצְלָן, עַצְלָנִית Yesterday we saw the words for dancer – רקדן[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/עצלן-#.m4a” /] and רקדנית[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/עצלן-#.m4a” /], which take the root ר.ק.ד[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/עצלן-#.m4a” /] and add an ending of ן-[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/עצלן-#.m4a” /] for a male and נית-[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/עצלן-#.m4a” /] for a female. This pattern of construction creates other words that describe professionals and…