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Streetwise Hebrew

#47 What's the first Hebrew word you learned?

Streetwise Hebrew

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Israel, Tlv1, Religion & Spirituality, Language Learning, Education, Language, Judaism, Hebrew, Streetwise

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🗓️ 22 July 2014

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Shalom means 'peace,' 'hello' and 'goodbye' – it’s one of the most popular words in Hebrew, and the first one everybody learns. But there are other words, all derived from the root sh.l.m, that are very active in our language. Let’s meet the family!

Words and expressions discussed:

Shalom – שָׁלוֹם

Shalom rav lachem ve’erev tov – שָׁלוֹם רָב לָכֶם וְעֶרֶב טוֹב

Shalem – שָׁלֵם

Ma shlom Tomer – מַה שָׁלוֹם תּוֹמֵר

Ma shlomo – מַה שְׁלוֹמוֹ

Shlomi tov – שְלוֹמִי טוֹב

Shlomi, shlomcha, shlomech, shlomo, shloma, shlomenu, shlomchem, shlomam –
שְלוֹמִי, שְלוֹמְךָ, שְלוֹמֵךְ, שְלוֹמוֹ, שְלוֹמָה, שְלוֹמֵנוּ, שְלוֹמְכֶם, שְלוֹמָם

Ma shlomenu? – מַה שְלוֹמֵנוּ?

Shalom aleychem – שָׁלוֹם עֲלֵיכֶם

Shalom aleychem malachey ha-shalom – שָׁלוֹם עֲלֵיכֶם מַלְאַכֵי הָשָׁלוֹם

Salam alaykum (Arabic) – סָלָאם עָלֵיכּום, سلام عليكم

Shulem alaychem (Yiddish) - שוּלֵם עֲלֵיכֶם

Sholem shloem le’olam, b’rogez brogez af pa'am – שוֹלֵם שוֹלֵם לְעוֹלָם, בְּרוֹגֵז בְּרוֹגֵז אַף פַּעַם

Drishat shalom, dash – דְּרִישַת שָלוֹם, דָ"ש

Timsor dash ba-bayit – תִּמְסוֹר דָ"ש בַּבַּיִת

Dash lekulam – דָ"ש לְכוּלָם

Tni li lehashlim et he-chaser – תְּנִי לִי לְהַשְלִים אֶת הֶחָסֵר

Lehashlim et ha-proyeket – לְהַשְלִים אֶת הַפְּרוֹיֵיקטָ

Lehashlim im ha-shaon – לְהַשְלִים עִם הַשָעוֹן

Mushlam – מוּשְלָם

Le’af echad ein or mushlam – לְאָף אֶחָד אֵין עוֹר מוּשְלָם

Yom mushlam – יוֹם מוּשְלָם

Music:

Ha-Dag Nachash – Shalom, salam, peace
Idan Yaniv – Shalom Aleychem
Rinat & Guy – Sholem Brogez
Yardena Arazi & Lahakat Ha-Nachal – Drishat Shalom
Eyal Golan – Neshika achat mimech
Kobi Aflalo – Yam Ha-rachamim

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is T.L.B. 1.

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Street-wise Hebrew.

0:10.0

Shalo. It's me Guy from streetwise Hebrew.

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Shalom's Salom, peace, Shalom, peace, Shalom Salom, peace,

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Shalom Salaam peace.

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If shariqam can,

0:19.0

Lord be Paris,

0:20.0

betunice, or Benis,

0:21.0

today we speak about Shalom, peace, but it's not only peace.

0:27.0

Shalom Ravelacham, Verevtov, this is how the channel 2 TV news bulletin starts. What's

0:34.7

Shalom Rave Lachim? Rave is like Harbe a lot so Shalom Rave is great hello, a

0:40.6

big hello. Lacham, to you, plural, the viewers.

0:44.0

Shalam Rave Lacham, Véerav Tov, and a good evening.

0:48.0

Shalom, by the way, is hello and goodbye.

0:51.0

And you just heard Yonit Levy Levy the most famous news anchor in Israel

0:54.6

in name you should totally know. She's married to a TV person and they make a nice couple.

0:59.3

But back to our streetwise Hebrew Shalom session. Shalom comes from the Shorh root,

1:05.3

sheen, lamad mam and it means something which is finished, reached completion.

1:10.4

And indeed Shalem means whole and peace is a situation where you feel whole with

1:16.1

yourself and with your neighbors. Hint, hint.

1:20.0

Mashlom Tomel is how is Tomel a guy's name literally it means how is Tomer's peace so this is the

1:26.4

smichot of Shalom Shalom off becomes schlom the a is truncated you can also ask m my schlomo how is he doing the ending or is the possessive his

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