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רשת One of my favorite Ehud Banai songs is בְּלוּז כְּנַעֲנִי (blooz knah-ah-NEE) – Caananite Blues. Ehud wrote the song in memory of his friend Meir Ariel, another musician who died tragically in 1999. One of the key words in the song is רֶשֶׁת (REH-shet), which means net. It’s also a term…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/מורשת-קרב-#.m4a” /]מוֹרֶשֶׁת קְרָב As a fact of life, an integral part of a nation’s heritage is almost always the wars and battles it fought for its existence*. So when a guide (corona permitting) takes the tourist of Israel to the fields of the Golan Heights, to the neighborhoods of Jerusalem or even to the…
רַכּוּת[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/רכות-1.mp3″ /] If you’ve got some Hebrew under your belt, you may know the pair of opposites רַךְ[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/רכות-2.mp3″ /] – soft, and קָשֶׁה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/רכות-3.mp3″ /] – hard. Softness is a higher-level word. In Hebrew, it’s רַכּוּת[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/רכות-1.mp3″ /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/רכות-4.mp3″ /]הַכֻּתְנָה מַעֲנִיקָה רַכּוּת מְרַבִּית. Cotton provides maximum softness. רכות means softness in…
לפסוע The Hebrew word for the Passover holiday is פֶּסַח (PEH-sakh); the word itself means passing over or skipping over, so that G-d skips over the homes of the Israelites on His way to smite the Egyptian firstborn. The Pascal sacrifice is named after this event, this movement by G-d. Hebrew verbs most typically have a…