חֹמֶר לְשִׁנּוּן[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/review-1.mp3″ /] Review Material Can’t read Hebrew yet? You spent time on your Hebrew this week. Use these review materials to make it yours to keep. Flashcards . Scatter . Gravity . Test Blast from the Past Crossword Puzzle! [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/review-2.mp3″ /]שבת שלום, וסוף שבוע נעים! Shabbat Shalom, and have a nice weekend!
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/ארוחה-משפחתית-#.m4a” /]אֲרוּחָה מִשְׁפַּחְתִּית If you’ve taken our Level 1 class, you know how to say lunch – ארוחת צהריים[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/ארוחה-משפחתית-#.m4a” /]. Here, ארוחת[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/ארוחה-משפחתית-#.m4a” /] means meal of, so that the full expression means literally meal of noon. The word for meal when it stands alone, unconnected to another noun, is ארוחה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/ארוחה-משפחתית-#.m4a” /]. And a family meal…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/כאן-1.m4a” /]פֹּה, כָּאן, הִנֵּה A subscriber asked me recently about the different words for here in Hebrew. While פה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/כאן-2.m4a” /] goes back to Biblical Hebrew, the use of כאן[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/כאן-3.m4a” /] only began in Mishnaic times, and probably arrived from a foreign language such as Aramaic. But they are used interchangeably to mean here, as in: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/כאן-4.m4a” /]יש…
having trouble seeing the print? לְשַׂמֵּחַ Hebrew courses starting Sunday in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv My professor of Bible and Aramaic at Yeshiva University, Dr. Moshe Bernstein, taught me that 18th-century philosopher Immanuel Kant declared that it’s worth studying Hebrew for ten years just to read תְּהִלִּים ק”ד – Psalm 104. Jews all over the world read…