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having trouble seeing the print? הִתְמַכְּרוּת Before I moved back to Israel in 2007 and opened up Ulpan La-Inyan a year later, I was training as a psychotherapist in Los Angeles. My first post was to Beit T’shuva, a Jewish center for addiction recovery on Venice Blvd. The Hebrew word for addiction is הִתְמַכְּרוּת, of the root…
having trouble seeing the print? לְהוֹצִיא כֶּסֶף, לְבַזְבֵּז highly recommended for further vocabulary growth Term 1 A while ago I did an entry on expenses – הוֹצָאוֹת. To spend money or to create an expense is לְהוֹצִיא כֶּסֶף – literally, to take out money. For example: הִיא חוֹשֶׁבֶת פַּעֲמַיִם לִפְנֵי שֶׁהִיא מוֹצִיאָה כֶּסֶף עַל מוֹתָרוֹת. She thinks twice before spending money…
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having trouble seeing the print? מַטָּס If you were in Israel early yesterday afternoon, you probably heard and saw fighter jets flying overhead. The makers of Modern Hebrew took the root ט.ו.ס – t.w.s – meaning flying and plugged it into a noun structure beginning with a מ (m), yielding the common word for airplane, מָטוֹס. It’s the same noun structure as that of מָקוֹם – place, which…
having trouble seeing the print? מָתוֹק-מָרִיר Though the mood is great today here as the political nation of Israel celebrates 65 years of existence and prosperity, there’s a bittersweet element as well, as we remember the people of Boston who have experienced an event this week that we in Israel know all too well. The Hebrew…
אַהֲבָה The Hebrew word for love – אַהֲבָה– appears to be related to the Aramaic root, י.ה.ב (y.h.b) meaning giving. Those who gave their lives (and those who risk their lives every day), so that the people of Israel and the Jewish people the world over could celebrate independence tonight, did so out of a…
having trouble seeing the print? תִּזְכּוֹרֶת Get to Know Our Full Conversational-Hebrew Program If you already know a bit of Hebrew, you’re bound to know the word for to remember – לִזְכּוֹר, an active-simple פָּעַל verb of the root ז.כ.ר (z.k.r). One of the words that the root ז.כ.ר generates is מַזְכֶּרֶת– souvenir (see earlier entry). Another is…
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having trouble seeing the print? הַשְּׁקִיעָה Get to Know Our Full Conversational-Hebrew Program Fast cars and great ice cream can definitely be exciting, but there’s nothing like a sunset to help calm the mind and soul. The Hebrew word for sunset is הַשְּׁקִיעָה – literally, the setting. In Rabbinic literature, sunset is termed שְׁקִיעַת הַחַמַּה– the setting…
having trouble seeing the print? לְהַגִּיעַ Get to Know Our Full Conversational-Hebrew Program If you’re studying a new foreign language, one of the first words you’re bound to come across is the one for to arrive, especially if you’re planning to visit that language’s country and tour around. If you already know some Hebrew, you likely know that…
having trouble seeing the print? בֵּינְלְאֻמִּי To create the word international, English takes the word national and appends to it the prefix, inter-. Hebrew does the same, where the word לְאֻמִּי meaning national gets the word inter/between/among – בֵּין – added to the beginning, yielding בֵּינְלְאֻמִּי. For example: לִמְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל יֵשׁ רָמַת יְצוּא בֵּינְלְאֻמִּי מַדְהִימָה בִּתְחוּם הַהַי טֶק. Israel has an amazing level of…