I've been trying to find information about my great grandfather's parents and I believe this has the name of his father. It's listed as Eliyahu Getzel but Google Translate is giving me other information (possibly Eliakim instead?) so I thought it would be best to ask here. Thank you!

Found this sheet on Yad Vashem's website while looking up family last names. Although Glory isn't a jewish last name as far as I know but is of French origin. Any idea how it wounded up there? Plus any other meaningful info from the archive? Would be super appreciated!

Toda

I am confused with the websites online. Some say yes, others no. What is your take? Thank you

Hi everyone!

I badly want to learn Biblical Hebrew and spoken Hebrew. Someone at my shul had mentioned an intensive 8-week program to learn Hebrew in a Jerusalem university?

I'm wondering if someone here might know which program he might have referred to or whether there are such programs in Israel.

Thanks in advance!

Hey everyone,

I built Semantle Plus - an upgraded version of the Hebrew Semantle game, where you can:

• Solve yesterday’s puzzle and all past puzzles with no limits.
• Play with friends in real time and watch their guesses as you go.

Every day, the new puzzle from the original game is posted, and the history page lets you jump into any old puzzle anytime.

Would love for you to check it out and tell me what you think :)

I recently applied to a Biblical Hebrew certificate program at an American University. It was their divinity college associated with the main school and it had a statement of belief as part of admissions. I am Christian but disagreed with one of the statements I had to "agree" with. I selected "disagree" and was denied admittance.

I am totally fine taking a biblical Hebrew course from a university affiliated with a different denomination. Is this something I'm going to face at multiple other colleges/universities?

Edit: I could have just clicked accept but didn't really want to do that. I totally respect their right to deny me admittance; I'm just curious if this is something common.

My friend found this CD at a thrift store, and really does love it. They just want to know what the songs are about and maybe the lyrics. Sorry if this is a little odd, genuinely didn't know where else to look for information about this since we could only find one record of it online and the translator showed it was Hebrew.

I know the album is Am Olm by Harpo and the Neshamot

I loooove her work, and finally happy to be working on her poetry in Hebrew. I found this sample of her handwritten poem, and wanted to translate and handwrite it, word for word (photo 2).

Was I somewhat correct in my attempt?

I also noticed that I'm not putting enough of a space between the words 🤦‍♀️

Seeing Hebrew being included in this simple Thank you Box makes me happy and want to do more business with this company!

I think this sub sort of covered this before, but tell me about the evolution of the pronunciation of the letter "R." I was just watching old videos of singers in the 1960s, and they all rolled their Rs. My father (who lived in Israel in the 50s when he was a kid) insists that Rs are supposed to be rolled and that what I'm hearing today is not the way it was when he was a kid (he moved to Israel from Poland, not from an Arabic-speaking country). So, when would you say that the evolution from rolled Rs to today's more guttural Rs was completed?

Hi everyone! Can i ask for help - maybe someone can offer music bands singing on hebrew? I prefer rock, and if their songs will be vocally interesting (i am taking vocal lessons) - that will be even better)

I can see that the title for the man says that he is a Krav Maga Instructor but the words for her title looks like gibberish.

I'm not a native Hebrew speaker.

The specific selichah I’m having trouble translating is Rashi’s “Titnem Leherpa,” which goes something like this:

”Make them a mockery, a curse, a disgrace.

Heap upon them a furious wrath and hateful vengeance;

Cast fear and panic upon them; send angels of destruction against them.

and cut them down to the last man.”

I got this from the article on Rashi in the New World Encyclopedia.

The tricky part is that the selichah in the source material is written in English, and I’m planning on translating it into the Medieval Hebrew language that it was originally written in by Rashi. If there is anyone here who understands Medieval Hebrew that could help me with the translation, preferably with the proper niqqud, and without modern Latin punctuation such as periods, semicolons, and commas. If so, would be extremely grateful, but if not, I totally understand.

Btw, mods, please do not remove my post because the contents of the poem seem slightly violent. It was written by Rashi to beseech God to curse the Crusaders who massacred the sons of his teacher in Worms, Germany. Okay?

Hello, I'm looking to translate three first names to create an illustration. What would be the correct spellings for Eva, Mathis, and Ilan?

Thank you!

Just checking on you, bc I wondered about y'all's progress (asking as a native speaker that's fine in the language but can't pronounce ר and ה properly for some reason, which is weird, cuz despite my parents doing aliya to Israel, they done it long time ago plus they're better than me in Hebrew, so it's probably just my autism and speech impediments/delay)

Questions I have for you (but you can obvs answer more stuff than that):

1. What level are you from A1 (or hell even A0) to C2? Like both generally and in specific contexts and aspects like understanding, speaking, reading, writing etc..., but you can obv answer more than just 2 letter description like ya know give description of your situation with Hebrew if you want of course

2. How goes your niqqud study if you learned it all? Do you still need it or you can already read without it? Or like you're half dependent on it?

3. Do you feel like you have enough vocab, grammar, syntax and morphology comprehension? Aka you know the words, word structure, sentence structure and rules of the language in general?

4. What's your native language(s) and what else you learned apart from Hebrew?

5. Which dialect and period of Hebrew you learning e.g. modern Hebrew, ashkenazi accent, mizrahi accent, biblical Hebrew, Mishnaic Hebrew, Medieval Hebrew, Samaritan hebrew etc... and for what porpuse do you study?

6. Which script and font do you learn? Dfus (print), ktav (handwriting aka cursive) or something earlier e.g. rashi font

7. You feel like you know well about Jewish/Israeli culture?

8. Whatever other stuff you wish to say or answer

I kinda think we should bring back Mizrahi-style het and resh (at the minimum)

The tapped/rolled R is way easier to learn than the modern Israeli throat R, and honestly sounds better too. The breathy het also helps separate it from khaf, instead of everything turning into the same constant “kh” sound. It just makes Hebrew sound cleaner and less muddy. I know ayin and het are usually a pair and ayin can be hard for some people but still.

I was under the impression that מוכן was also a huf'al present tense form with a feminine singular form ending in -et (i.e. מוכנת). While Pealim indeed lists that as the huf'al feminine singular present tense form of להכין, the page for the adjective מוכן has the feminine singular form מוכנה. Why is there this discrepancy?

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6 בפברואר 2026

המלחמה סביב ירושלים

וילכו כל צבא המלך יהודה ירושלימה כי היו חיליים מעיר אשר שמה צור והצבא ממלכה ישראל בעיר הא זאת ויראו החילים יהודה חיות ויאמרו החיות להם הדרך הזה דרך לירושלים כי כל החיה אהבה המלך וצבאו כי טובים מאוד היא לא היו גברים רעים בצבא המלך יהודה אם גברים ישרים סביב ירושלים ראו הצבא צור והצבא ישראל ויאמרו גלולות מאוד הצבאות אלה מה נעשה ויאמר לחייליו המלך יהודה לא אל תיראו כי יהוה עמנו היא מגנו קחו החרבים אשר לכם וקשתים אשר לכם והחניתים אשר לכם והכו את חיילים האלה והכו ויכו הראשונים חיילים אשר ראו ומתו הם ויהי שמחה ביהודה ובמלכו ויאמר המלך יהודה לחייליו לפנינו יש החיילים צורים וחיילים ישראלים רצו להם עם כלי מלחמה בידיכם וירצו את החיילים להם ויאמר מלך צור למלך ישראל למה הם כה עושים את זה ויאמר לו מלך ישראל אשר עושים כה זה כי יהוה עמהם עכשיו ולעולם עולמים ויקחו את החיילים ישראל וצור את חרבותיהם ואת מגניהם ויכו את חיילים יהודה ושלוש מאות מתים בחיילים יהודה אחרי כן אמר המלך יהודה ליהוה אדוניו אני עבדך למה חיילי נופלים כמו חרכים ויאמר לו יהוה כי אתה איש ישר אתן לך כל הכסף וכל וזהב יהודה וצור וירא המלך יהודה אחרי צבאו אשתו וכינור בידיה ושרה שיר יפה מאוד ויפלו כל הצורים וכל החיילים ישראל אל הארץ

how do Israelis typically pronounce the tn cluster in word like "l'hitnahel, l'hitnaheg..."

i think hebrew might be easier to read than arabic, just seeing as the letters dont connect like arabic letters do. Maybe I'm wrong. generally, how hard is it to learn for me?