#310 Strengthened Coffee and Upgraded Pizza?

Streetwise Hebrew

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Language Learning, Judaism, Religion & Spirituality, Education

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🗓️ 13 October 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

What do we mean when we say קפה מחוזק (roughly translated as strengthened coffee), and is it legitimate to drink it at 1:30 PM? Or when we say הוא מתחזק (he's getting stronger) about someone? It's not what you might think.

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New Words and Expressions:

Eich lechazek et kol ha-rosh – How to strengthen the head voice – איך לחזק את קול הראש

Lehazek – Strengthen – לחזק

Tsarich lechazek et ha-shimshiya lifnei ha-sufa – We need to tie the parasol down before the storm – צריך לחזק את השמשייה לפני הסופה

Lehazek haver be-sha'ah kasha – To support a friend during hard times – לחזק חבר בשעה קשה

Hizuk hiyuvi (het-het) – Positive reinforcement – חיזוק חיובי

Idud talmidim – Encouraging students – עידוד תלמידים

Matan hizukim – Giving validations – מתן חיזוקים

"Yafe yonatan, tsarich lehatchil mi-ze" – Good job, Yonatan, this is where you need to start – יפה, יונתן, צריך להתחיל מזה

"Nachon, metsuyan, toda raba" – Correct, excellent, thanks – נכון, מצויין, תודה רבה

Mechuzak – Strengthened, fortified, reinforced, empowered – מחוזק

"Pizza mechuzeket" – Upgraded pizza – פיצה מחוזקת

Pizza mishpachtit – Family-sized pizza – פיצה משפחתית

La-batsek ha-chadash hosifu agvaniyot meyubashot – To the new dough they added sun dried tomatoes – לבצק החדש הוסיפו עגבניות מיובשות

Hizku – They strengthened – חיזקו

Ledaber-dibru; Lechazek-hizku

Medubar-Mechuzak

"13:30 ba-tsohorayim zo sha'ah legitimit le-kafe mechuzak, nachon?" – 1:30pm is a legit time for coffee with a splash of alcohol, right?" – ?אחת וחצי בצוהוריים זו שעה לגיטימית לקפה מחוזק, נכון

Hozer bi-tshuva – A person who becomes religious – חוזר בתשובה

Ha-rechev hitchazek – This car's engine got stronger – הרכב התחזק

Hu hitchazek – This secular person become more religious – הוא התחזק

Ha-shekel hitchazek – The shekel got stronger – השקל התחזק

"Az ha-geshem hitchazek ba-sha'ot ha-achronot" – "So the rain got stronger in the last few hours" – אז הגשם התחזק בשעות האחרונות

"Aval hu yitchazek be-tsura mashma'utit yoter" – "But it will get stronger, significantly" – אבל הוא יתחזק בצורה משמעותית יותר

"Ad machar bi-sh'ot ha-tsohorayim" – "Until tomorrow afternoon" – עד מחר בשעות הצוהוריים

Hitchazkut – Getting stronger/becoming more religious – התחזקות

"Ze mitchaber le-megama shel hitchazkut" – "It connects to this tendency of the increase in the number of people who are becoming religious" – זה מתחבר למגמה של התחזקות

"Hem mesachkim po al ha-double-meaning shel ha-tarbut ha-israelit" – They are playing on the duality of the israeli culture – הם משחקים פה על הדאבל-מינינג של התרבות הישראלית

Playlist and Clips:

Eich lechazek et kol ha-rosh

Hizuk hiyuvi

Commercial: Pizza mechuzeket

Ofer Levy – Mitchazek (lyrics)

Hitchazek – Car commercial

Hitchazek – Car commercial 2

Ha-shekel hitchazek – The Shekel got stronger

Ha-geshem yitchazek – Weather forecast

Talking about the car commercial

Arkadi Duchin – Merov Ahavati (lyrics)

Transcript

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0:00.0	This is TELB1.
0:07.0	Street-wise.
0:11.0	St. Why?
0:12.0	Shil' It's me guy with street. Street-wise Hebrew.
0:13.0	Shalom, it's me Guy with Street-wise Hebrew.
0:16.0	I ask you to share funny first name anecdotes and you continue to deliver.
0:20.0	Here's what Shelly Seinfeld fromoca Raton, Florida, sent in.
0:25.0	Hello, Guy. My name is Shelly. I was raised in Miami,
0:30.0	was an ardent member of Zionist young Judea and had many Israeli friends outside of high school.
0:37.0	Most were older than me.
0:39.0	When they would ask my Hebrew name, I would tell them that which was given to me at birth in honor of my great grandmother and my great grandfather, Zelda Mindel.
0:51.0	Every one of them would make a face and tell me if I ever wanted to live in Israel I had to change my name.
0:59.0	No itish name, especially Abbe's name like Zelda, a Hebrew name. So I went to an Orthodox
1:07.3	Rabbi who I did not know on Miami Beach and told him my dilemma. He told me to call him back after a week and when I did he gave me a new Hebrew name with instructions to have everyone call me by that name for weeks to make it my own. After graduation, about two years
1:26.9	later, when I went to Hebrew University for college, I would be asked my name, my new Israeli acquaintances.
1:35.0	Without thinking, I would say Shelly.
1:38.0	They would automatically, enthusiastically, respond.
1:43.0	Lo Shalih, Shalach.
1:46.0	Well, it was all over, decided,
1:50.0	no matter Zelda or not by popular vote my name in Israel was Shelly.
1:58.0	Gadol Shelly to Darba. So Shelly that's the name and Shelly, that's the name and Shelly, that's mine. Great story. We want more.
2:08.0	Guy at Telv1.FM, that's my email address, where you can send me your story, like Shelley's.
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