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[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/העלאה-#.m4a” /]הַעֲלָאָה The word עלייה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/העלאה-#.m4a” /] means ascent. When someone immigrates to Israel, they’re said to ascend, so their process is called עלייה. Now, עלייה is a noun form of לעלות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/העלאה-#.m4a” /], a simple פעל verb meaning to ascend or to go up. But to cause something to go up – to raise it – is להעלות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/העלאה-#.m4a” /],…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/צדק-חברתי-1.m4a” /]צֶדֶק חֶבְרָתִי If company or society is חברה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/צדק-חברתי-2.m4a” /], then social is חברתי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/צדק-חברתי-3.m4a” /] in the masculine and חברתית[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/צדק-חברתי-4.m4a” /] in the feminine. For example, a social network is רשת חברתית[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/צדק-חברתי-5.m4a” /]. Likewise, social justice is צדק חברתי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/צדק-חברתי-1.m4a” /], which itself was part of the slogan of המחאה החברתית[audioclip…
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[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/בקלות-#.m4a” /]בְּקַלּוּת You may know the Hebrew word for easy or light: קל[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/בקלות-#.m4a” /]. Ease or lightness is קלות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/בקלות-#.m4a” /], so that with ease (or easily) is בקלות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/בקלות-#.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/בקלות-#.m4a” /]היום בקלות אפשר להגיע מירושלים לתל אביב עם הרכבת המהירה. Today (one) can easily get from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv with the fast train.
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