having trouble seeing the print? דָּבָר this week’s video dose of Hebrew by Ami Steinberger, Founder and Director, Ulpan La-Inyan Enjoying Your Daily Dose of Hebrew? Consider making a donation!
לְהַשְׁכִּיב listen and repeat Can’t read Hebrew yet? לִשְׁכַּב listen and repeat means to lie down. For example: בְּשַׁבָּת אַחַר הַצָּהֳרַיִם, אַבָּא שׁוֹכֵב עַל הַסַּפָּה. On Shabbat afternoon, Dad lies down on the sofa. listen לשכב is an intransitive form (more or lesss) of an active-simple verb, whose root is שׁ.כ.ב (sh.k.b). In order…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/באותו-יום-#.m4a” /]בְּאֹתוֹ יוֹם One of the most basic Hebrew words is יום[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/באותו-יום-#.m4a” /] – day. Even if you’re brand new to Hebrew, you’ve probably heard this word before: it appears in יום כיפור[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/באותו-יום-#.m4a” /] – Yom Kippur. What if you want to speak about something that happened on that day? In Hebrew, it’s באותו יום[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/באותו-יום-#.m4a”…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ראוי-1.m4a” /]רָאוּי The Hebrew word for worthy is ראוי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ראוי-1.m4a” /]. You may recognize its root as ר.א.ה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ראוי-2.m4a” /] – the concept of seeing. ראוי means literally, seen. The word first appears in the Mishnah, where it means fit or seen as appropriate for something specific. This meaning carries until today in phrases like: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ראוי-3.m4a” /]הוא ראוי לה והיא…
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…
having trouble seeing the print? פָּרָה Ancient Israel was the nexus of its world, the crossroads of trade routes running from Assyria in the north to Egypt in the south… and from India in the East to Mauretania (ancient Morocco) in the west. A popular mode of long-term transportation in those days was by…
