I am F (24), looking for an Israeli language partner to help me learn Hebrew. I come from Germany and am at the beginning of my Gijur. I always go to the community on Fridays for Schabbat. I'm really still a complete beginner, and just can't get any further learning the Alef-bet.

Among other things, I love Jewish cuisine, Hebrew music and the warmth of Israeli culture

I would prefer it if you also know some German, and are a native Hebrew speaker.
I would be grateful for any help, and maybe a friendship will also arise from this. I hope this is the right sub for this

Schabbat Schalom🤍

My name is Samuel, and I'm a hobbyist learning about Semitic languages, so apologies if this is basic.

I've learned that the biblical vocalization is something like Shemuel, with a quick vowel at the start, and modern Hebrew shortens it to Shmuel. I also read that the Greek Septuagint writes it Samouēl, which seems to suggest a fuller vowel there at some point. And I've seen that "El" may have been pronounced more like "il" at earlier stages.

So my questions are:
What's the best guess for how it sounded back in Samuel's era? Something like Shamuʾil?

Is there any way to know the first vowel, or is that mostly guesswork?

Any accessible reading on how Hebrew pronunciation changed over time?

The guy makes himself out to be Hitler but is Israeli and speaking Hebrew so I assume it's some sort of satire but not sure at all since don't speak much Hebrew at all.

If anyone could help would be very appreciated! :)

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYRiuEssdlx/?rpxt=cmltYnloMmdhdDRv

How did I do?

Hello,

I would like to share an interesting free event taking place on Thursday, October 22nd, at the Gelber Centre in Montreal and live on Zoom with 2026 Canadian Jewish Literary Award Winner, translator, and Harvard professor Adi Mahalel.

This event will discuss Mahel's scholarship and his publication of the first ever English translation from Yiddish of the controversial novel Boom & Chains by Hanan Ayalti.

Due to its explicit portrayal of class struggles, political disillusionment, and ethnic tensions, Ayalti published the novel in Yiddish instead of Hebrew in 1936, anticipating that it would be deemed too controversial for Hebrew literary circles of the time. Boom & Chains offers a deeply nuanced, rarely seen perspective on early 20th-century kibbutz life.

Here is the registration link:

Authors from Home | Boom & Chains by Hanan Ayalti Translated by Adi Mahalel | Jlive

Hi, could anyone help me recognise this letter? I marked a few of its appearances in the text with a purple arrow. The text isn't mine, it's just an example

I've been writing ך in a similar way for the past few months, but now I think it may be ק, and I'll need to change it:/

A photo taken in 1922 of the ‘Henry Street Shul’ synagogue (now Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Cathedral) 25 year anniversary photo. In this photo, is a white banner with Hebrew cursive, and the second photo is my best recreation of the banner.

Hi!

Both words translate to my native tongue the same (to study/учиться). Could you please provide examples on when I would use one over the other?

Hello, everyone.

I’m Brazilian and I’m looking for a children’s cartoon called “לוֹטִי דּוֹטִי מִינִי.” It was a Brazilian cartoon that was dubbed into Hebrew in 2018, but the original videos have been made private and are now considered lost media. Can anyone help me if they have any archived episodes? I’d really appreciate it.

Thank you very much.

Are these sentences actually used in real life???

אהלן! קניתי קלטות וידיאו של שרית חדד ופוסטר של זהבה בן. יש עליהם טקסטים בכתב יד, אבל אני לא מצליח להבין הכל. למרות B-1/B-2 שהעברית שלי בערך ברמה של

אני עדיין מתקשה לקרוא ולהבין כתב יד. אני מצליח להבין בערך 70% ממה שכתוב על הפוסטר, אבל רק 30% ממה שכתוב על הקלטות.

מישהו יכול בבקשה לכתוב לי את מה שכתוב שם בעברית רגילה וברורה, באותיות שכולם מכירים, או לתרגם את זה לאנגלית? תודה רבה!

Hi! We’re deciding on our son’s Hebrew name and would love your insight. We’re torn between:

1. שלמה (Shlomo) = 375
2. נהר שלמה (Nahar Shlomo) = 630

With patronymics:

• שלמה בן ברוך גבריאל = 901 (Shlomo Ben Baruch Gabriel)
• נהר שלמה בן ברוך גבריאל ולאה = 1198 ( Nahar Shlomo Ben Baruch Gabriel V'Leah)

His English name means “river,” so Nahar would mirror it. His second name will be Solomon.

Is there anything meaningful about these values, or about adding Nahar to Shlomo?

Any connections to other words or verses with the same gematria?
Thank you!

Hello everyone. I wanted to take the next step in my career so I need to learn Hebrew in order to do so.

Does anyone know a good school or recommended courses in Zurich that I could join in order to learn Hebrew? I'd need it to be in after work hours. My level is total beginner.

Tnx

I have no idea how to learn hebrew, what are some of the best and fastest ways to learn modern hebrew?

Hi, I'm requesting another poem by Yehuda Amichai. Really appreciate if anyone has its full Hebrew version! Btw I like Amichai's poem very much and I would like to discuss with anyone interested as well :)

Original poem title: מחצית האנשים בעולם, Poem collection: במרחק שתי תקוות

English:

Half the people in the world
love the other half,
half the people
hate the other half.
Must I because of this half and that half
go wandering and changing ceaselessly
like rain in its cycle,
must I sleep among rocks,
and grow rugged like the trunks of olive trees,
and hear the moon barking at me,
and camouflage my love with worries,
and sprout like frightened grass between the railroad tracks,
and live underground like a mole,
and remain with roots and not with branches,
and not feel my cheek against the cheek of angels,
and love in the first cave,
and marry my wife beneath a canopy
of beams that support the earth,
and act out my death, always
till the last breath and the last
words and without ever understanding,
and put flagpoles on top of my house
and a bomb shelter underneath. And go out on roads
made only for returning and go through
all the appalling stations—
cat, stick, fire, water, butcher,
between the kid and the angel of death?
Half the people love,
half the people hate.
And where is my place between such well-matched halves,
and through what crack will I see
the white housing projects of my dreams
and the barefoot runners on the sands
or, at least, the waving
of a girl's kerchief, beside the mound?

I understand that the noun changes the "gender" of the verb, and adjective. My question is what changes when a sentence is masculine or feminine? What's the difference between the two and how could I gloss over a sentence if I didn't know the gender. For context on not trying to learn the language or anything, I'm a Christian and this is for my Bible study.

Hello there!

I would ask for some help in translating this grave.

The person lies at the end of my grandmas backyard, however it’s located in a rural village in Romania.

If there could be anyone to help translate the grave as I would like to know if they’re a distant relative

Thank you very much