As the world has slowly shut down there are many people in the position of having to stay home. Staying home, and having all our freedoms taken away from us to help flatten the curve, has been challenging for many people. From not being able to pop into a friend’s house for a coffee or […]
how to learn Hebrew
Read Hebrew
The question on everyone’s lips during this current pandemic crisis should be “who wants to read Hebrew?” With borders closed across the world, communities in quarantine or isolation, people need something to take their minds off the enormity of what humanity is facing, the biggest health crisis since the Spanish Flu in the 1920s. Starting […]
Learning Hebrew Online
Learning Hebrew Online I started learning Hebrew properly when I was one. It was at this point I started being taken to synagogue, so I have been hearing the Hebrew sounds since I was a baby, plus as well, I heard the Hebrew prayers twice a week on the Jewish Sabbath, and also on Jewish […]
How do you read Hebrew?
How Do You Read Hebrew? For any non-Israeli, Hebrew can be a tricky language. The consonants and vowels are unique to Hebrew, there is nothing else like it in any other written language, except of course, Yiddish. Yiddish, being a combination of German and Hebrew, uses the Hebrew characters in the text. However, a common […]
Easy Hebrew reading
Easy Hebrew reading – can it be done? In order to understand the above phrase, I want to deconstruct what the word “easy” actually means. According to the website www.dictionary.com, the definition of “easy” is not hard or difficulty; requiring no great labour or effort. Reading this definition makes me wonder if the above phrase […]
Easy Hebrew reading – can it be done?
In order to understand the above phrase, I want to deconstruct what the word “easy” actually means. According to the website www.dictionary.com, the definition of “easy” is not hard or difficulty; requiring no great labour or effort. Reading this definition makes me wonder if the above phrase “easy Hebrew reading” is a misnomer. However, through […]
How is Hebrew read
One of the many questions I get asked as a Hebrew teacher is “how is Hebrew read”. it is not as simple as answering: from right to left, the Hebrew reading needs to know every consonant and vowel; and that is just a starting point! When confronted with Hebrew text, for the non-native reader, it […]
My Hebrew reading journey
Early Childhood I have had an interesting journey in learning to read Hebrew and my Hebrew reading journey in general. It pretty much started when I was born! My father is a rabbi, so Hebrew is pretty much his lifeblood. So I grew up surrounded by Hebrew through the blessings, hearing him practice reading the […]
Hebrew reading pronunciation
Hebrew Reading Pronunciation. As I finished in my last post, the students learn to sing the Hebrew Aleph Bet. However, before we start, I have to warn them that they need to leave their inhibitions outside of the classroom. I explain to them that learning to read Hebrew is not a time to hold onto […]
Learn Hebrew – The Journey: Part 1
One thing I really enjoy doing is teaching absolute beginners how to learn to read Hebrew. I call it my “spiritual income”. I consider myself so fortunate to have a niche skill that brings in an income. I first started teaching Hebrew when I was approximately 15 years old. I was put in charge of […]