Category: the Hebrew language
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macOS: how to show or hide Keyboard Viewer with a keyboard shortcut?
I like the the non-mousing approach best: Fn+Ctrl+F8.
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Kaddish originally written in Hebrew!?!
- https://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-5301143,00.html
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaddish#History_and_background :
Professor Yoel Elitzur … argues that the Kaddish was originally written in Hebrew, and later translated to Aramaic to be better understood by the masses. He notes that quotations from the Kaddish in the Talmud and Sifrei are in Hebrew, and that even today some of the words are Hebrew rather than Aramaic.
That’s quite an interesting and surprising point of view. And quite comprehensible and logical as well.
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a nice Russian and Hebrew word: Балаган = בלגן – pronounced “balagan”, it means: disorder
The word originated from Persian “balatchan”, borrowed by Turkish as “bala han”, and from Turkish to Russian as “balagan”, since there’s no “h” in Russian it is always replaced with “g”.
In Persian in meant “balcony” (which is the same word, same meaning), and also “attic”. In some Slavic language the word still has that original meaning.
In Russian it meant “storage place”, and from there (they say theatre plays were performed in those storage places, which were called “balagan”), and from here it was taken to indicate “mess”, “disorder.”
The first Russian immigrants to Israel (end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century) brought this word with them and thus it became integral part of Hebrew, through Russian.
(Details retrieved from my admired Hebrew teacher, claiming he is not the original author of this research.)
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a “maven” is a trusted expert in a particular field, who seeks to pass knowledge on to others
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maven
A maven (also mavin) is a trusted expert in a particular field, who seeks to pass knowledge on to others. The word maven comes from Hebrew, and means one who understands, based on an accumulation of knowledge. …