how to say “thicket” in Hebrew (how do you say it in English?)
Says Wikipedia, “A thicket is a very dense stand of trees or tall shrubs, often dominated by only one or a few species, to the exclusion of all others.”
When I hear the word thicket I think Bambi.
Anyway, a thicket or a grove in Hebrew is a חורשה (khoor-SHAH). And in Jerusalem’s חֻרְשַׁת הַיָּרֵח (khoor-SHAHT hah-yah-REH-ahkh) – literally, The grove of the moon – this מוֹצָאֵי שַׁבָּת (moh-tsah-EH-ee shah-BAHT) – Saturday Night (literally, the leavings of the Sabbath), there will be bonfires in honor of לַ”ג בָּעוֹמֶר (lahg bah-OH-mehr).
Actually, there will be bonfires all over the country.
The word חורשה also appears in the title of that nostalgic song I’ve featured here before, חורשת הָאֶקַלִיפְּטוּס (khoor-SHAHT hah-eh-kah-LEEP-toos) – The Eucalyptus Grove, by Naomi Shemer
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