having trouble seeing the print? שְׂרָרָה, סַמְכוּת brought to you by Ulpan La-Inyan teaching Hebrew in English-speaking communities throughout Israel and online Check us out! The Torah portion to be read this Shabbat by Jews around the world deals with authority, its limitations and its importance. There are two words used in…
having trouble seeing the print? לְהִתְרוֹצֵץ brought to you by Ulpan La-Inyan teaching Hebrew in English-speaking communities throughout Israel and online Check us out! To run is לָרוּץ (lah-ROOTS) in Hebrew. It is an active-simple פעל application of the root ר.ו.צ (r.w.ts) meaning running. To run around from place to place, often lacking a sense…
having trouble seeing the print? לָרוּץ brought to you by Ulpan La-Inyan teaching Hebrew in English-speaking communities throughout Israel and online Check us out! English describes an election campaign as a race. While Hebrew sometimes uses the equivalent – מֵרוּץ (meh-ROOTS – see yesterday’s entry), more often you’ll find Israelis talking simply about…
having trouble seeing the print? מֵרוּץ, גֶּזַע brought to you by Ulpan La-Inyan teaching Hebrew in English-speaking communities throughout Israel and online Check us out! The English word race has two meanings: there’s the race in which people contend, and there’s race as a subdivision of humanity. one of Israel’s favorite TV shows: הַמירוץ לַמִּלְיוֹן The Race…
having trouble seeing the print? תַּרְגִּישׁוּ בַּבַּיִת brought to you by Ulpan La-Inyan teaching Hebrew in English-speaking communities throughout Israel and online Check us out! The Torah portion to be read this Shabbat by Jews around the world is all about the gift of the Land of Israel and the tragedies involved…
having trouble seeing the print? לְהִסְתַּנֵּן Online Level 1 Hebrew Discount Deadline TODAY! In the Israeli news recently there has been a lot of talk about refugees and others from Africa illegally crossing the Egyptian border into Israel seeking asylum and work. The word used in the Hebrew media to describe these…
having trouble seeing the print? לְהַרְחִיק, לְהִתְרַחֵק brought to you by Ulpan La-Inyan teaching Hebrew in English-speaking communities throughout Israel and online Check us out! The Hebrew root for distance is ר.ח.ק (r.kh.k); far is רָחוֹק (rah-KHOHK). To move something or someone away is לְהַרְחִיק (leh-hahr-KHEEK). להרחיק is an active-causative הפעיל verb. For example: הוּא הִרְחִיק אֶת…
having trouble seeing the print? מֶרְחָק brought to you by Ulpan La-Inyan teaching Hebrew in English-speaking communities throughout Israel and online Check us out! If you’ve got a rudimentary Hebrew vocabulary, you probably know the word for far – רָחוֹק (rah-KHOHK). This essential adjective has cognates (words with similar origin) in several other…
having trouble seeing the print? לְהַאֲצִיל סַמְכוּיוֹת brought to you by Ulpan La-Inyan teaching Hebrew in English-speaking communities throughout Israel and online Check us out! In the Torah portion to be read tomorrow by Jews around the world, G-d eases מֹשֶׁה – Moses (moh-SHEH) of some of his burden in leading the Children of Israel by stating…
having trouble seeing the print? לְהִתְחַכֵּם brought to you by Ulpan La-Inyan teaching Hebrew in English-speaking communities throughout Israel and online Check us out! Along the theme of wisdom that we touched upon earlier this week is the behavior of using intelligence and wisdom for purposes of self exploitation. In English we call this…
having trouble seeing the print? רַמְזוֹר brought to you by Ulpan La-Inyan teaching Hebrew in English-speaking communities throughout Israel and online Check us out! Yesterday we probed the Hebrew expression, דַּי לַחֲכִּימָא בִּרְמִיזָא (DAH-ee lah-khah-KEE-mah beer-MEE-zah), an equivalent of the English, a word to the wise is sufficient. The Aramaic word רְמִיזָא (reh-MEE-zah, or classically,…