Hebrew Word of the Week: rimmon
Yona Sabar
September 22, 2016
The pomegranate is one of several components of the Sephardic seder for Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year holiday.
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Hebrew Word of the Week: mitslalah
Yona Sabar
September 16, 2016
In hot sharav/Hamsin, scorching summer days in Israel, people are desperate to find a shady outdoor spot. So the municipalities have been providing mitslalot “public shaded areas.”
Hebrew word of the week: Nasi’/President
Yona Sabar
August 24, 2016
The English word president and the verb preside are from the French-Latin presider(e), “sit in front (of everybody else)”
Hebrew word of the week: Hammah (sun, hot)
Yona Sabar
August 3, 2016
Words in any language may become obsolete or change in pronunciation and meaning.
Hebrew word of the week: Vegetarians / TsimHonim
Yona Sabar
July 27, 2016
Fast-growing trends in America and Europe, such as becoming tsimHonim “vegetarians” or Tiv’ıonim “vegans” (“naturalists”), are adopted very quickly in Israel, and some seem to have a basis in Judaism.
Hebrew word of the week: PatsHan = Hacker
Yona Sabar
July 13, 2016
The advent of the computer has contributed many new words to modern languages, or new meanings to old words.
Hebrew word of the week: Lo’ tirtsah/Thou shall not kill
Yona Sabar
June 15, 2016
The original sense of r-ts-H* was “to smash, shatter” as in retsaH be-’atsmotay “crushing my bones” (Psalms 42:11); Arabic and Aramaic cognates “to crush.”
Hebrew word of the week: Salt/Melah
Jewish Journal
May 25, 2016
A very old word, quite common in the Bible and in other Semitic languages, including brit melaH “fellowship over a meal”* (Numbers 18:19); a sacred offering to God (Leviticus 2:13); and the custom of adding salt after the ha-Motsi’ grace over bread.
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