חֵרֶם, לְהַחֲרִים[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/חרם-1.wav” /] The English word boycott is named for a 19th-century Irishman, Charles C. Boycott, who was ostracized after refusing to lower rent for his tenant farmers (see Online Etymological Dictionary). The Hebrew word for this social (or antisocial) action goes further back, all the way to the Bible. The word is חֵרֶם[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/חרם-2.wav”…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/בכל-רגע-נתון-#.m4a” /]בְּכָל רֶגַע נָתוּן The Hebrew word for a moment is רגע[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/בכל-רגע-נתון-#.m4a” /]. You may recognize it from: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/בכל-רגע-נתון-#.m4a” /]רק רגע! Just a moment! In the phrase בכל רגע נתון[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/בכל-רגע-נתון-#.m4a” /], the word רגע functions as time: the phrase means at any given time, or literally, at every given moment. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/בכל-רגע-נתון-#.m4a” /]בכל…
חֹמֶר לְשִׁנּוּן[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/review-1.mp3″ /] Review Material You spent time on your Hebrew this week. Use these review materials to make it yours to keep. To take full advantage of the review material, click on “Choose a study mode” in the bottom right corner of the box above. [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/review-2.mp3″ /]שבת שלום, וסוף…
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מַצְפּוּן Can’t read Hebrew yet? When Modern Hebrew created a word for the physical object called a compass – מַצְפֵּן , of the root צ.פ.נ (ts.p.n) meaning north as well as hidden – it employed the same root to create a term for the non-physical entity that guides people towards their destiny. The Hebrew word for conscience is מַצְפּוּן . For…