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,…
having trouble seeing the print? דַּי לַחֲכִּימָא בִּרְמִיזָא brought to you by Ulpan La-Inyan teaching Hebrew in English-speaking communities throughout Israel and online Check us out! The Vilna Gaon There are those who need a message repeated to them over and over… and there are those who need to hear it just once….
having trouble seeing the print? מַסְפִּיק, דַּי brought to you by Ulpan La-Inyan teaching Hebrew throughout Israel and online There are two words in Hebrew that mean enough. First word by Eran Finkle taken in Bet Yehoshua, Israel מַסְפִּיק (mahs-PEEK) comes from the root ס.פ.ק (s.p.k) meaning sufficiency. מספיק is an adjective and adverb deriving from the active-causative הפעיל…
having trouble seeing the print? לָשֵׂאת brought to you by Ulpan La-Inyan teaching Hebrew throughout Israel and online Courses starting Sunday around the country! The Torah portion to be read this Shabbat by Jews around the world is called נָשֹא (nah-SOH), which, literally, means lift up or carry (in the Biblical context, it means take a census or lift…
having trouble seeing the print? מִגְדָּר brought to you by Ulpan La-Inyan teaching Hebrew throughout Israel and online Courses starting Sunday around the country! We’ve seen the Hebrew root ג.ד.ר used in its original sense to mean fence – גָּדֵר (gah-DEHR), as well as in a modern application to mean definition or computer setting – הַגְדָּרָה (hahg-dah-RAH). Another…