Wednesday, April 02, 2025
ghibli and kibel
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The latest viral internet trend is creating AI-generated images in the style of Studio Ghibli. You've very likely seen them by now—or m...
Wednesday, December 11, 2024
leitzan and mukion
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Let's look at two Hebrew words for clown - לֵיצָן leitzan and מוּקְיוֹן mukion . Leitzan is the more common of the two, so we'll s...
Monday, November 25, 2024
inbal
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A reader asked about an Israeli grape juice called Inbalim ענבלים. I presume this is the brand: He asked why the juice had that name. I do...
Sunday, September 01, 2024
Elul
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The Hebrew month of Elul אֱלוּל begins this week, so let's look at its etymology. As with the other names of the months in the current H...
Sunday, August 25, 2024
kartis
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Rabbi David Bashevkin (of the enjoyable 18Forty podcast) recently posted on his Substack an essay entitled " The Revival of Hebrew ....
Wednesday, August 14, 2024
zonda
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The Hebrew word for "feeding tube" (or more technically a nasogastric or orogastric tube) is זוֹנְדָּה zonda . This is clearly not...
Thursday, August 08, 2024
chayil and chayal
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Devarim 8:17-18 includes a well-known passage where the people are warned against attributing their successes to their own talents, instead...
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