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Review Material
You spent time on your Hebrew this week.
Use these review materials to make it yours to keep.
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/שיטה-#.m4a” /]שִׁיטָה In Biblical Hebrew you may come across עץ השיטה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/שיטה-#.m4a” /] – the acacia tree. While the word for method – שיטה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/שיטה-#.m4a” /] – is spelled and pronounced the same as the word for the tree, the two are not related: the root of שיטה the tree is ש.נ.ט[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/שיטה-#.m4a” /], while…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/לזרוח-#.m4a” /]לִזְרוֹחַ Perhaps you know the Hebrew word for east – מזרח[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/לזרוח-#.m4a” /], of the root ז.ר.ח[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/לזרוח-#.m4a” /]. It’s called that because השמש זורחת שם[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/לזרוח-#.m4a” /] – the sun rises or shines there. The word for to shine is לזרוח[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/לזרוח-#.m4a” /], as in: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/לזרוח-#.m4a” /]בחורף כל הזמן מעונן, אבל בקיץ השמש זורחת. In the winter…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/מעפילים-#.m4a” /]מַעְפִּילִים This is a term with no real English equivalent: מעפילים[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/מעפילים-#.m4a” /] (the closest translation I found was internee, but who knows what that is). The Modern-Hebrew term refers to Jews, mostly displaced persons after the Holocaust, trying to break the blockade of the British Mandate before the State of Israel was established. Here’s…
אָכֵן Can’t read Hebrew yet? Indeed once was a common word in English. Today it’s used more often than not sarcastically or smugly (though sometimes it’s used sincerely as well). Its Hebrew equivalent, אָכֵן , is used in a similar vein. For example: סִיַּמְתָּ אֶת כָּל הָעֲבוֹדָה שֶׁלְּךָ לְהַיּוֹם? אָכֵן….
having trouble seeing the print? מְהַמֵּם DEADLINE THIS THURSDAY! Check out Ulpan La-Inyan’s winter course offerings! image compliments of Lioz Guttman, Ulpan La-Inyan instructor in Tel Aviv It hasn’t been an easy couple of weeks for the various religious groups within Jewish Israel. The posted presented to the left of this text makes light…