חֹמֶר לְשִׁנּוּן Review Material Can’t read Hebrew yet? Review, practice and test yourself on this week’s doses of Hebrew! Flashcards Game Test שַׁבָּת שָׁלוֹם, וְסוֹף שָׁבוּעַ נָעִים! Shabbat Shalom, and have a nice weekend!
מַנְהִיגוּת Can’t read Hebrew yet? In the Torah portion to be read this Shabbat by Jews around the world, Moses is informed that he won’t be leading the People of Israel into the promised land. His response, defining his role as the leader, gets me every year: יִפְקֹד ה’ אֱ-לֹהֵי…
דְּרוֹמִית לְ… Can’t read Hebrew yet? The Modern-Hebrew way of expressing north of…, south of… etc. takes the word for north, south, etc, adds a suffix to the end of the word and adds a to prefix to the next word. For example, דָּרוֹם meaning south becomes …ְדְּרוֹמִית ל meaning south of, as…
מוֹקֵד חֵרוּם Can’t read Hebrew yet? מֶרְכָּז is the better-known word for center. Its root is ר.כ.ז (r.k.z) meaning concentration: a מרכז is a place where people or things gather inside of it, such as: מֶרְכַּז הָעִיר the city center and מֶרְכַּז רְפוּאִי medical center Its synonym, מוֹקֵד ,…
הַחֲדָשׁוֹת Can’t read Hebrew yet? The Hebrew word חָדָשׁ means new. It’s an adjective, which means that it takes on the gender of word it modifies, for example: קָנִיתִי בְּגָדִים חֲדָשִׁים. I bought new clothes. (בגדים is masculine) and זֹאת מַגֶּבֶת חֲדָשָׁה. This is a new towel….
בְּעַיִן יָפָה Can’t read Hebrew yet? The proper term for generosity is נְדִיבוּת, but the most commonly-used term that describes giving generously suggests that when a person feels generous, they see and appreciate the beauty in the world: to give generously is לָתֵת בְּעַיִן יָפָה– literally, to give with a beautiful eye. For example: אֲנַחְנוּ…
חֹמֶר לְשִׁנּוּן Review Material Can’t read Hebrew yet? Review, practice and test yourself on this week’s doses of Hebrew! Flashcards Game Test שַׁבָּת שָׁלוֹם, וְסוֹף שָׁבוּעַ נָעִים! Shabbat Shalom, and have a nice weekend!
אַרְיֶה, לָבִיא If you’ve toured northern Israel, you may have come across a place called Kibbutz Lavi – קִבּוּץ לָבִיא The word לָבִיא, in Modern Hebrew, is a flowery term for lion – whereas אַרְיֶהis the common word: יֵשׁ אֲרָיוֹת בְּאַפְרִיקָה. There are lions in Africa. Adding a feminine suffix to לביא, we get…
גִּלּוּי Can’t read Hebrew yet? Last summer I did a video on the Hebrew expression for Columbus discovered America. The word for to discover is the same as that for to reveal: לְגַלּוֹת , an active-intensive verb of the root ג.ל.ה (g.l.h). For example: הִיא גִּלְּתָה לִי אֶת הַסּוֹד. She revealed the…
רֶגֶשׁ עִקָּרִי Can’t read Hebrew yet? רֶגֶשׁ means emotion. עִקָּרִי means prime, main or primary. רֶגֶשׁ עִקָּרִי is primary emotion or primary feeling. הָרֶגֶשׁ הָעִקָּרִי שֶׁלִּי עַכְשָׁו הוּא כַּעַס. My primary emotion now is anger. It’s starting to give way to sadness.
קֶשֶׁר עַיִן Can’t read Hebrew yet? So, we’ve seen that to contact someone is לִיצוֹר קֶשֶׁר . Eye contact in Hebrew, literally, eye connection, is קֶשֶׁר עַיִן . Applying both terms, we get: יָצַרְתִּי אִתָּהּ קֶשֶׁר עַיִן. I made eye contact with her.