[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/להשלים-#.m4a” /]לְהַשְׁלִים If you’ve had even the slightest experience with Hebrew, you probably know that שלום[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/להשלים-#.m4a” /] means not just hello and goodbye, but also peace. So it should come as no surprise that the word for to reconcile or to make peace with someone else is להשלים[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/להשלים-#.m4a” /], a הפעיל verb. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/להשלים-#.m4a”…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/לשמוע-בקול-#.m4a” /]לִשְׁמוֹעַ בְּקוֹל Here’s a Biblical-Hebrew expression that is just as useful today as it was thousands of years ago: לשמוע בקול[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/לשמוע-בקול-#.m4a” /] – to listen to (someone) and obey, literally to listen to the voice of. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/לשמוע-בקול-#.m4a” /]היא עברה את הגיל שילדים שומעים בקול ההורים שלהם. She passed the age…
לְדַרְבֵּן listen to this word pronounced One of the students in my Level 5 class invited us to her home in Gush Etzion, where her husband (a tour guide) gave us a history of the region spoken all in Hebrew. She, the student, also served us really tasty home-baked banana-chocolate-chip cake. After our introduction to…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/תלוי-1.m4a” /]זֶה תָּלוּי Do I prefer chicken, or beef? Chocolate or vanilla? For me, the answer is it depends. In Hebrew, that’s זה תלוי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/תלוי-1.m4a” /] or simply, תלוי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/תלוי-2.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/תלוי-3.m4a” /]מה אני מעדיף? תלוי. What do I prefer? It depends. תלוי means literally hung, as לתלות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/תלוי-4.m4a” /] is to hang something…
שֶׁלֶט חוּצוֹת If you’ll be in Jerusalem in August, don’t miss חוצות היוצר – the Artist’s Colony fair, where you’ll find artwork from around the world as well as concerts by some of Israel’s rock stars. חוצות isn’t exactly a colony – the word refers to the outdoors in a poetic sense (בחוץ is outdoors or outside in…
מַצְלֵמָה listen to this word pronounced After having landed yesterday at LAX, I attended services this morning at my beloved community synagogue in which I was raised, Chabad of Encino. Following the prayers I sat in Rabbi Gordon’s class on the Torah portion, which is videotaped and uploaded daily. You can check it out…