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חֹמֶר לְשִׁנּוּן[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/review-1.mp3″ /] Review Material You spent time on your Hebrew this week. Use these review materials to make it yours to keep. To take full advantage of the review material, click on “Choose a study mode” in the bottom right corner of the box above. [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/review-2.mp3″ /]שבת שלום, וסוף…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/מטורף-#.m4a” /]מְטֹרָף If you know a bit of Yiddish, you may know the word meshugena – a crazy person. The original Hebrew form of this is משוגע[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/מטורף-#.m4a” /]. But Hebrew has another word for insane – מטורף[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/מטורף-#.m4a” /]. And like in English, מטורף doesn’t have to speak only of a person with a fragile…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/לגלול-#.m4a” /]לִגְלוֹל The Hebrew root ג.ו.ל[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/לגלול-#.m4a” /] is about roundness. We see it in the word for marbles – גולות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/לגלול-#.m4a” /]. ג.ו.ל sometimes appears as another root – ג.ל.ל[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/לגלול-#.m4a” /], as in the simple verb to scroll – לגלול[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/לגלול-#.m4a” /]: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/לגלול-#.m4a” /]צריך לגלול עד סוף הדף. You need to scroll to…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/דף-גמרא-#.m4a” /]דַּף גְּמָרָא Talmud, the collection of Jewish legal wisdom and folklore, is a Hebrew word – תלמוד[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/דף-גמרא-#.m4a” /], deriving from the root ל.מ.ד[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/דף-גמרא-#.m4a” /] meaning study. But there’s another word for Talmud which comes from Aramaic – גמרא[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/דף-גמרא-#.m4a” /]. And a page or folio of גמרא is דף גמרא[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/דף-גמרא-#.m4a” /], as in:…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/לילה-לבן-#.m4a” /]לַיְלָה לָבָן I didn’t know what a white night was until I came to live in Israel, where there’s an annual all-night event in Tel Aviv, the White City. A white night refers to a sleepless night or a night that is never fully dark such as those in summer in high latitudes. In Hebrew, this is…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/יומולדת-#.m4a” /]מְסִבַּת יוֹם הֻלֶּדֶת While there is a Hebrew song that’s a literal translation of Happy Birthday to You – יום הולדת שמח[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/יומולדת-#.m4a” /], the song that most Israelis sing at birthday parties is: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/יומולדת-#.m4a” /]היום יום הולדת Today is the Birthday of… A birthday party is מסיבת יום הולדת[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/יומולדת-#.m4a” /], as in:…