Brush Up on Your Passover Prayers and Blow Away the Seder Guests With Your Mad Hebrew Skills Are you leading the seder and want to brush up on the Passover prayers and blessings you will be in charge of reciting? Or, are you attending a seder for the first time and want to have an …
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Learn How to Say Proper Greetings for Passover There are a variety of ways to let someone know that you are thinking of them during Passover. And the best part is that you can choose to wish someone a Happy Passover in three different languages: English, Hebrew or Yiddish! Whichever one of the Passover greetings …
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How to Say/Sing Happy Birthday in Hebrew The most common way to sing or say Happy Birthday in Hebrew is with the literal translation from Hebrew into English: Yom Huledet Sameach. We read Hebrew from right to left. So, Yom means ‘day’, Huledet means ‘of birth’, and Sameach means ‘happy’. As is the case with …
Which Of These Israeli TV Shows Tops Your List? What is it about Israeli TV that is so appealing to a global audience? In the past two years, several highly rated Israeli shows – most of which originally aired in Israel a few years ago – have made the top 10 on Netflix, Hulu, and …
Hebrew Boy Names and Meanings for Jewish Babies There are a couple of reasons why you might be looking to choose a Hebrew boy name for your baby. You might like his given name to be a Hebrew name. If so, there are some beautiful Hebrew boy names and meaning below to consider. Or, you …
Ma Nishtanah? This Post is Different Because We Really Break Down Passover’s Famous Four Questions Four Questions are recited in Hebrew during the Passover seder. They typically come at the beginning of the Magid, the telling of the Exodus story. This part of the seder falls after the middle matzah is broken and the afikomen …
Shabbat Blessings: Chant the Prayers for Shabbat Shabbat, the Jewish Sabbath, is the day of rest, a weekly respite where we commemorate the day that God rested from creating the world. It begins as the sun sets on Friday night and ends when the sun sets on Saturday night and three stars are visible in …
Learn to Count Hebrew Numbers from Zero to One Million The first and most important thing to note when learning the Hebrew numbers 1-10 is that each number has two forms: a masculine and a feminine form. How do you know whether to use the masculine form of the feminine form? By looking at the …
Hebrew Girl Names and Meanings There are typically two main reasons someone is looking for a list of Hebrew girl names. You might be pregnant, mulling over the difficult decision of what to name your child, and would like to give your baby girl a Hebrew name. There are so many beautiful Hebrew names to …
Hanukkah Blessings: Chant Before Lighting the Candles One of the most important Hanukkah rituals is to recite the Hanukkah blessings and light the candles on the menorah. We say three blessings on the first night and only two blessings — the first and second blessing — for the following seven nights. There is a chant …
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