having trouble seeing the print? יְסוֹדִי Check out our spring courses in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Raanana, Efrat, Ramat Beit Shemesh and Tzfat Many of the readers on this blog are busy this week preparing their dwellings for Passover. This preparation demands, above all, a thorough cleaning – נִקּוּי יְסוֹדִי (nee-KOO-yee yeh-soh-DEE). The foundations of Hebrew יסודי is an adjective form…
having trouble seeing the print? לִסְמוֹךְ Check out our spring courses in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Raanana, Efrat, Ramat Beit Shemesh and Tzfat Deadline to save 200 shekels April 1 (THIS SUNDAY)! The Torah portion to be read this Shabbat by Jews around the world continues to detail the sacrificial practices in the Temple. One of event in the process…
having trouble seeing the print? חָמְרִיּוּת Check out our spring courses in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Raanana, Efrat, Ramat Beit Shemesh and Tzfat Deadline to save 200 shekels April 1 (THIS SUNDAY)!!! If חֹמֶר לְמַחְשָׁבָה (KHOH-mehr leh-mahkh-shah-VAH) means food (material) for thought, and the word חומר itself means material, it follows that חָמְרִיּוּת (khohm-ree-YOOT) means materialism, where the וּת– ending…
having trouble seeing the print? חֹמֶר לְמַחְשָׁבָה Check out our spring courses in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Raanana, Efrat, Ramat Beit Shemesh and Tzfat Deadline to save 200 shekels April 1! The last entry presented a Hebrew equivalent for the English expression, food for thought – נְקֻדָּה לְמַחְשָׁבָה (neh-koo-DAH leh-mahkh-shah-VAH) – literally, a point for thought. I realized later that there…
having trouble seeing the print? נְקֻדָּה לְמַחְשָׁבָה Check out our spring courses in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Raanana, Efrat, Ramat Beit Shemesh and Tzfat Deadline to save 200 shekels April 1! by Darwin Bell Many expressions in English have direct translations in Hebrew… as well as in German, French and many other languages. Some expressions have a more approximate, related-but-not-identical translation….
having trouble seeing the print? מֻרְכָּבוּת Check out our spring courses in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Raanana, Efrat, Ramat Beit Shemesh and Tzfat Deadline to save 200 shekels April 1! The Hebrew word רֶכֶב (REH-khev) means vehicle in both Biblical and Modern Hebrew. Likewise, the verb לִרְכּוֹב (leer-KOHV) means to ride. The root is ר.כ.ב (r.k.b). There’s another set of words…
having trouble seeing the print? רִגְשׁוֹת אַשְׁמָה Check out our spring courses in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Raanana, Efrat, Ramat Beit Shemesh and Tzfat Deadline to save 200 shekels April 1 – no joke! The Torah portion to be read this Shabbat by Jews around the world unveils the spiritual life of those Jews living in the times…
having trouble seeing the print? מֶרְכָּז רְפוּאִי Check out our spring courses in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Raanana, Efrat and Ramat Beit Shemesh A center is a מֶרְכָּז (mehr-KAHZ). For example, the greater Tel Aviv metropolis is considered מֶרְכַּז הָאָרֶץ (mehr-KAHZ hah-AH-rets) – the center of the country. The root of מרכז is ר.כ.ז (r.k.z) meaning concentration. The practice of…
medical center having trouble seeing the print? טֶבַח The root is ט.ב.ח (t.b.kh), just like that of the word for kitchen – מִטְבָּח (meet-BAHKH). And it makes sense – a מטבח is historically the place where butchering took place. Toulouse. אוֹצָר הַתּוֹרָה (oh-TSAHR hah-toh-RAH) – The Treasure of the Torah. Sweet innocent children and adults…
having trouble seeing the print? עַצְמִי Check out our spring courses in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Raanana, Efrat and Ramat Beit Shemesh The Hebrew word עֶצֶם (EH-tsem) means, literally, bone. In Biblical Hebrew, the word עַצְמִי (ahts-MEE) means only my bone or my bones. It is used figuratively in the expression עַצְמִי וּבְשָׂרִי (ahts-MEE oo-veh-sah-REE) – literally, my bone and my flesh – equivalent…
having trouble seeing the print? אוֹפְּטִימָלִי, מֵיטָבִי Check out our spring coursesin Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Raanana, Efrat and Ramat Beit Shemesh The word meaning optimal you’re most likely to hear in Spoken Hebrew is אוֹפְּטִימָלִי (ohp-tee-MAH-lee). But the Israeli media is control of much of public opinion as well as public language, and today I saw an article in a major…