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| my brother Danny מְטַפֵּח his child, newborn Adina Rose |
having trouble seeing the print? תּוֹרָה here’s the video חַג שָׂמֵחַ! Happy holiday! listen and repeat by Ami Steinberger, Founder and Director, Ulpan La-Inyan Enjoying Your Daily Dose of Hebrew?
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/יחידה-#.m4a” /]יְחִידָה The English word unit is related to the word one – more recognizably, to the Spanish (and Italian) word for one, uno. Likewise, Hebrew’s word for unit – יחידה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/יחידה-#.m4a” /] – is related to its word for one, אחד[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/יחידה-#.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/יחידה-#.m4a” /]היא התגייסה ליחידה קרבית. She was drafted to a combat unit….
having trouble seeing the print? לְחַכּוֹת בְּקֹצֶר רוּחַ Check Out Our Elections Vocab Builder The literal translation of I can’t wait! works as well: אֲנִי לֹא יָכוֹל לְחַכּוֹת – when spoken by a male אֲנִי לֹא יְכוֹלָה לְחַכּוֹת – when spoken by a female But the more common, more descriptive expression is that which translates the English…
חֻרְשָׁה listen to this word pronounced Says Wikipedia, “A thicket is a very dense stand of trees or tall shrubs, often dominated by only one or a few species, to the exclusion of all others.” When I hear the word thicket I think Bambi. Anyway, a thicket or a grove in Hebrew is a חורשה (khoor-SHAH). And in Jerusalem’s…
לְמוֹפֵת listen and repeat Can’t read Hebrew yet? The Passover Seder describes the Exodus as having taken place with signs and wonders – בְּאוֹתוֹת וּבְמוֹפְתִים listen and repeat. A מוֹפֵת listen and repeat is a wonder, something captivating and thus deserving of attention. Modern Hebrew also uses מופת to refer to people deserving attention…