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Vocabulary Building: C’mon baby, light my fire… Posted by Sean Young on Jun 23, 2013
In this post we’ll be looking at the root ד-ל-ק. As an example, we have the word לְהַדְלִיק (le’hadleek) “to light” or “kindle (a fire)”. This root is connected to fire or fuel. In fact, the word for fire is דְלֵיקָה (d’leikah). And when a person lights a fire, he or she מַדְלִיק (madleek)…
Recipe: Poached Eggs – Israeli style Posted by Sean Young on Jun 5, 2013
Shakshuka (Arabic: شكشوكة; Hebrew: שַׁקְשׁוּקָה) is a dish of eggs poached in a sauce of tomatoes, chili peppers, onions, and often spiced with cumin. It is believed to have a Tunisian origin. It’s similar to the Mexican breakfast dish huevos rancheros. Shakshuka in Hebrew means “all mixed up.” and is related to the Hebrew…
Israeli tennis player – Shahar Pe’er Posted by Sean Young on May 23, 2013
Shahar Pe’er (שחר פאר) is an Israeli professional tennis player. Pe’er started her competitive tennis career at the age of six, and won her first title at the age of 12 when she captured the Eddie Herr International Doubles title with Nicole Vaidišová. She reached the Eddie Herr singles final as well. Her career-high…
Hebrew History – The Dead Sea Scrolls Posted by Sean Young on May 22, 2013
The Dead Sea Scrolls are a collection of 972 texts discovered between 1947 and 1956 at Khirbet Qumran in the West Bank. The texts are of great historical, religious and linguistic significance because they include the earliest known surviving manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible canon, along with extra-biblical manuscripts which preserve evidence of the…
Hebrew Verbs in Action: lagur be… (to live in) Posted by Sean Young on May 9, 2013
In November last year, I wrote a post to learn how to ask where someone is from. Today I’m going to write how to say where you live through the use of the verb לָגוּר – ‘to live’. The form of “לָגוּר” in linguistic terms is in the infinitive. That means it is like…
Real World Hebrew: Throwback to 1904 Posted by Sean Young on Apr 26, 2013
We are going back in time when this book was published in Warsaw, Poland. This is a Hebrew primer intended for use after learning the alef-bet. It contains over 200 detailed illustrations, stories with review questions and a color chart. The pictures here are based on the copy currently housed at Yeshiva University Museum…
Insight into Hebrew: The Divine Name Posted by Sean Young on Apr 17, 2013
In the King James translation of the Old Testament, the name of God appears only four times – Psalm 83:18, Exodus 6:3, Isaiah 12:2 and Isaiah 26:4. It is also used three times as a part of a name of an altar or place (Genesis 22:14, Exodus 17:15 and Judges 6:24). Otherwise, the name of…