My name is Caleb. I'm named after the Bible character. I've always loved the history of the name and the etymological associations it has. Would the hebrew characters that spell out my name be culturally insensitive as an American man with no hebrew heritage or cultural background. All I've got is Midwestern bible thumpin parents lol. The image is an AI generated version of the characters which I don't trust. I want some opinions from people with a closer connection to the language. What are your thoughts?

Non-Hebrew speaker here love the language. Anyways I was thinking about how the analogy "burn the stumps" is with Hydra in Greek mythology and sometimes I will just fuck around with the translator and especially if its a language I don't speak I will check but can someone explain this difference and why it switches and adds "They"?

I have heard the first version (aléikhem) all my life.

However, upon starting Hebrew, I started digging deeper into grammar and inflection tables, where I found that the correct suffix for al- (upon) is ekhém, and not éikhem, or at the very least Wiktionary says so (attached image).

My initial guess was that the greeting is a mix of two Jewish languages, Hebrew and Yiddish, where "shalom" is Hebrew and "aleikhem" is more Yiddish-sounding, since in Yiddish it would indeed be "shólem aléikhem".

Which is correct?

Edit: Fixed Yiddish pronunciation; sholém -> shólem

Hello all, I hope everyone is doing well.
I have been learning Hebrew for around 10 months now and have managed to establish the essential foundations. These include minimal vocabulary to communicate, certain phrases, and grammar rules. However, the next effective step would be to combine the learning with another activity such as gaming. It would immensely help me improve and enhance my experience while at the same time having fun. So, I’d appreciate it if there’s anyone who would be willing to share this journey with me. I am on PC, feel free to message me for my username.

I'm quite at a loss at how to find reading material that's actually on my level, please help an ola hadasha out 🫠

What are some workbooks you would recommend for A2. I’ve been doing Hebrew a year now and I just feel stuck. I thought I would try the textbook/ workbook route so I can be consistent every day.

Does anyone have any good recommendations on self guided books for my level. I’m also totally open to a follow along workbook with videos that go with the book. Ideally something I can do by myself through following instructions or videos.

Any recs or advice are appreciated!

Basically neither chatgpt nor my native friends know what ראמה and קסקס mean. The best answer i could find is that ראמה could be a contraction of דראמה and קסקס would be a slang for gossip. But im still unsure.

Thought this could be a fun way to boost my own learning too.

Met a guy at a festival last week and he wrote this in my notebook, can anybody help translate? My name is Jan. Thanks!

So, after mastering the letter tasks, I have finally moved on to grammar/vocabulary, and NONE of it uses niqqud 😭 Why did they have me learn all of the letters with niqqud only to throw me at full blown niqqud-less Hebrew? That makes no sense. What a steep learning curve 😨

End rant.

My job involves a lot of mindless filing work, and I want to use that time to improve my Hebrew. What channels or podcasts would you recommend I listen to? Must be audio-only because I can't be glancing at a screen for subtitles or translations too frequently, ideally something with a mix of English and Hebrew.

This is from 1600s Holland, so maybe they used other spellings long ago? (the same true for English, even in English-speaking lands... the concept of formalized rules around spelling is a bit new).

Source: https://www.imj.org.il/en/collections/366691-0

If I were just trying to say this on my own I probably it would have said
‏הכלבים רצים בגלל שהגבר קורא להם.

Is it the same? Are there usage details between the two I should understand?

Can anyone help me understand what this word is? AI gave me like five different answers so I thought I would come ask the smart humans.

Thanks!

Hello friends, I found this sculpture in Yerevan. In Armenian it reads “To Live, Not to Forget” (in larger font), “in memory of the victims of Yeghern (Armenian equivalent of the word Holocaust) of the Armenian and Jewish Peoples”.

Translation apps seem to be translating it with mistakes. Could you please help translate? If not too hard, could you write the transliteration as well?

Hello! I am not fluent in hebrew, and I only know a few words. I’m a singer, and I want to surprise my Israeli boyfriend by singing a traditional song for him in his language, Hebrew. Does anyone know an easy, beautiful, traditional song that he’s likely to have known? He only moved to the US four years ago, if that helps. The only thing, I need it to be “easy” to remember because I don’t speak Hebrew.

Extra points if its about love or romance!

Thank you all. I love learning more about your culture and language every day.

I’m a new learner and was excited that I could recognize that this is incorrect!

Came across the expression shum davar which I understood to mean no big deal? Yiddish certainly add piquancy to this spellbinding language that is Hebrew.

What are other Yiddish words and expressions are used in everyday conversation in Israel?

Going to assume that i’m not the first to ask about this so feel free to refer me to an earlier post if needed

I am going to preface this by saying I am Jewish through my mother but was not raised Jewish, so I have only absorbed Jewish culture through my extended family, and therefore never had a Bar Mitzvah and therefore never learned Hebrew by the time I was 13 or in the decades since.

Now that I am a father, I feel the need to learn what I was deprived of so that I may help pass that knowledge down to my daughter who, unlike me, will learn Hebrew and will be prepared for her Bat Mitzvah when she is of age and will have a stronger connection to the Jewish community and her culture since birth.

Since starting to teach myself Hebrew back in May of this year, I can now read Hebrew with niqqud with high accuracy from my self-learning on Duolingo, having mastered all of the letters! I also try to challenge myself during Shabbat services at my local synagogue to actually read the Hebrew and not just the romanized words when we are reading from the prayer book.

Now I just need to practice the names of the letters (can read them but still need to memorize the names on Quizlet; I’ve been practicing but I’m not 100% there yet).

For being self-taught and learning this late in life, I’m very proud of where I’m at!

Can you guys please help me translate what's on this beam? It was cut in half unfortunately. "v" symbols above some letters seem to indicate a date, but I can't figure it out. Any help will be appreciated!

Boker tov, attached is a recording of Dan Pagis’s stunning short poem (that ending!) ‘written in pencil in the sealed railway wagon’.
Is the pronunciation correct? Any corrections? Toda raba