how to say “to resist” in Hebrew

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/גוף-האדם-#.m4a” /]גּוּף הָאָדָם The Hebrew word for person is אדם[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/גוף-האדם-#.m4a” /] (named after Adam from the Bible). Likewise, a human being is בן אדם[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/גוף-האדם-#.m4a” /] – literally, a son of Adam – regardless of the person’s gender. The word for body is גוף[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/גוף-האדם-#.m4a” /]. Thus the human body is גוף האדם[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/גוף-האדם-#.m4a” /], as in: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/גוף-האדם-#.m4a”…

לָקוּם לִתְחִיָּיה In 1949, my grandparents helped found a kibbutz near modern-day Modiin. The founders called it תחיה – basically, resurrection, since this was one of many Jewish settlements rising up in Israel only a few years after near-total destruction in Europe. In the coming years the kibbutz gave way to another agricultural settlement, and…