| Introduction |
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How This Book Is Organized |
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| Part 1: Getting Started With Hebrew |
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Chapter 1 You Already Know Some Hebrew |
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Taking Stock of What's Familiar |
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Speaking Hebrew Like a Native |
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Getting out the gutturals |
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Opening your mouth to say "AN" |
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Recognizing Tips to Help You Read Hebrew |
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Figuring out the Hebrew alphabet's shapes, sounds, and stories |
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Reading and writing from right to left |
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Chapter 2 The Nitty-Gritty: Basic Hebrew Grammar |
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Making Sense of Hebrew Syntax |
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Putting your sentences in order |
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Recognizing Parts of Speech |
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Understanding Gender and Number |
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Chapter 3 Shalom, Shalom!: Meeting and Greeting |
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Greeting and Saying Goodbye |
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Making Grand Introductions |
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Getting Better Acquainted |
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Finding out who speaks English |
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Talking about where you come from |
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Chatting about how you feel |
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Extending and Responding to Invitations |
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Asking Questions: The Who, What, Where, When, Why, and How |
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Asking yes or no questions |
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Forming negative questions |
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| Part 2: Hebrew In Action |
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Chapter 4 Getting to Know You: Making Small Talk |
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Talking About Yourself and Your Family |
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Chatting About the Weather |
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Six Days You Shall Labor: Talking About Work |
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Getting Addresses, Phone Numbers, Email, and Instagram/Twitter handles |
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Asking and telling where you live |
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Asking and giving a phone number, email address, or Instagram handle |
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Chapter 5 Eat! Eat! You're So Thin! |
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Jewish Love Means Never Having to Say "I'm Hungry" |
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Quieting a growling stomach |
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Getting Down to Business: Food, Glorious Food! |
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Starting the day with breakfast |
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Matching Adjectives and Nouns |
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Taking Your Grocery List to the Market |
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Selecting the Perfect Outfit |
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Styling Your Clothes around the Seasons |
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Sweatin' it out in the summer |
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The Israeli Fashion Scene |
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Getting More (and Less) Than You Bargained For |
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Chapter 7 Having Fun Hebrew Style |
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Counting the Hours and Minutes |
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Telling time like an American |
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Relating time to the past, present, and future |
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Discovering the Days in a Week |
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Visiting museums and art galleries |
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Enjoying live entertainment: Music and theater |
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The Animals Went on the Ark Two by Two: Visiting the Zoo! |
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Spicing Up Your Sentences with Adverbs |
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Chapter 8 Enjoying Your Free Time: Hobbies, Sports, and Other Fun Activities |
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Chatting About Your Hobbies |
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Amassing an amazing collection |
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Creating things with your hands |
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Playing and Watching Sports |
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Kickin' to score in soccer |
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Shooting for three in basketball |
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Swinging away at baseball |
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Working up a sweat playing other sports |
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Venturing Outdoors for Some Fun |
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Chapter 9 Talking on the Phone |
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Telling someone to call you |
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Socializing in fake time (also known as social media) |
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Asking for People and Getting the Message |
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Dealing with voicemail and other annoyances |
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Making Arrangements over the Phone |
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Talking About the Past: How Was Your Shabbat? |
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Chapter 10 At the Office and Around the House |
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Finding Your Way Around Your Job |
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Searching for the perfect job |
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Looking through the rooms |
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Furnishing your humble abode |
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Hunting for your very own flat |
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Giving your apartment some flair |
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Keeping your apartment safe |
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Commanding People: Do As I Say |
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| Part 3: Hebrew On The Go |
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Chapter 11 Planning and Taking a Trip |
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Choosing Your Final Destination (And When You Want to Go) |
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Whittling down your choices - so many places you can gol |
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Traveling internationally |
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Coming and Going: Knowing Where You Are |
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Discussing the Future: Verb Forms and Popular Expressions |
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Finding the Hotel That's Right for You |
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Checking In: Names, Addresses and Room Numbers |
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Filling out the registration form |
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Checking Out and Paying the Bill |
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Asking about special charges |
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Making Sure You Don't Get Lost |
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Giving and Understanding Directions For Lost Souls |
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Keeping North, South, East, and West Straight |
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Chapter 12 Getting Around: Flying, Driving, and Riding |
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Getting Through the Airport |
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Suffering through the flight |
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Getting your feet back on the ground |
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Renting a Vehicle and a Phone to Go with It |
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Understanding the rental contract |
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Navigating Public Transportation |
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Watching the wheels on the bus go round and round |
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Traveling on trains and the light rail |
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Reading maps and schedules |
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Chapter 13 Money, Money, Money |
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Flowing with the Currency |
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Using Electronic and Digital Currency |
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Chapter 14 Handling Emergencies |
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Tackling Your Uncooperative Car |
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Doctor, Doctor, Give Me the News |
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The knee bone's connected to the leg bone: Identifying your body parts |
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Explaining your unique medical needs |
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Receiving a thorough examination |
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Paying attention to the diagnosis |
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Getting Help After You've Been Robbed |
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| Part 4: Diving Deeper Into Hebrew Life |
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Chapter 15 An Introduction to Israel |
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Discovering Multicultural Israel |
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Touring Israeli Cities and Towns |
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Starting at the Beginning: A Brief History Lesson |
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Fleeing to and from Europe |
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Wanting to be in charge: Nationalism, self-determination, and the Jewish State |
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Environmental Cooperation May Be the Key |
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| Part 5: Sacred Hebrew |
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Chapter 17 Let's Get Biblical |
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Figuring Out the Word Order in Biblical Hebrew |
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Emphasizing When God Really Meant It |
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Wishing, Intending, and Prohibiting |
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Deciphering One-Word Wonders |
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Counting Down the Greatest Biblical Hits |
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Deciphering the blessing formula |
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Identifying some basic blessings |
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Spiritually Speaking: Figuring Your Way around the Prayer Book |
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The Sh'ma and her blessings |
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Dissecting the Standing Prayer |
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Chapter 19 Sacred Time, Sacred Space |
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Checking Out Holy Words for Holy Days |
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Rosh HaShanah: The Jewish New Year |
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Yom Kippur: The Day of Atonement |
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Sukkot: The Fall Harvest Festival |
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Sh'mini Atzeret and Simchat Torah: Praying for Rain and Rejoicing in the Torah |
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Celebrating Sigd: The Holiday of Ethiopian Jews |
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Hanukkah: The Jewish Festival of Lights |
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HaHag shel HaHagim: The Festival of Festivals |
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Tu BiShevat: The Birthday of the Trees |
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Purim: A Jewish Mardi Gras |
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323 | (1) |
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Yom HaShoah V'Ha'G'vurah: Holocaust Remembrance Day |
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Yom HaZikaron: Israeli Memorial Day |
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Yom HaAtzma'ut: Israeli Independence Day |
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Lag B'Omer: The 33rd Day of the Omer |
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Shavuot: The Festival of Weeks |
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Tisha B'Av: The Ninth of Av |
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Tu B'Av: The Holiday of Love |
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All My Life's a Circle: Jewish Life-Cycle Events |
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Brit/Simchat Bat: Welcome to the family |
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327 | (1) |
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B'nai Mitzvah: Coming of Age |
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Kiddushin: Sacred Partnership |
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Barub Dayan HaEmet: End of Life |
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| Part 6: The Part Of Tens |
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Chapter 20 Ten Books on Hebrew You Just Gotta Have |
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Hebrew Roots. Jewish Routes: A Tribal Language in a Global World |
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Hebrew: The Eternal Language |
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334 | (1) |
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The Tongue of the Prophets: The Life Story of Eliezer Ben Yehuda |
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334 | (1) |
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The Hebrew Alphabet: A Mystical Journey |
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334 | (1) |
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Hebrew Talk: 101 Hebrew Roots And The Stories They Tell |
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334 | (1) |
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Aleph-Bet Yoga: Embodying the Hebrew Letters for Physical and Spiritual Well-Being |
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The Word: The Dictionary that Reveals the Hebrew Source of English |
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335 | (1) |
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How the Hebrew Language Grew |
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335 | (1) |
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Poems of Jerusalem and Love Poems |
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Chapter 21 Ten Favorite Hebrew Expressions |
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Chapter 22 Ten Great Israeli Phrases |
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341 | (1) |
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Yesh G'vul L'Chol Ta'alul |
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341 | (1) |
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| Appendix A: Verb Tables |
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| Appendix B: Hebrew-English Mini-Dictionary |
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| Appendix C: Answer Key |
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| Index |
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