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Let's learn some Hebrew quotes! (^_^)

Haver (חבר) = Friend.

Okev (עוקב) = Follower.

Reshatot hevratiot (רשתות חברתיות) = Social media

Shalom (שלום) = Hello.

Lehitra'ot (להתראות) = See you soon.

Boker tov (בוקר טוב) = Good morning.

Tzhaoraim tovim (צהריים טובים) = Good afternoon.

Erev tov (ערב טוב) = Good evening.

Layla tov (לילה טוב) = Good night.

Halom (חלום) = Dream.

Halomot mitgashmim (חלומות מתגשמים) = Dreams come true.

Toda (תודה) = Thank you.

Bevakasha (בבקשה) = You are welcome // Please.

Slicha (סליחה) = Sorry.

Ken (כן) = Yes.

Lo (לא) = No.

Kamuvan! (כמובן) = Of course!

Atem col-cach metukim (אתם כל כך מתוקים) = You are so sweet.

Atem madhimim (אתם מדהימים) = You are amazing.

Mehamem (מהמם) = Stunning.

Hibuk (חיבוק) = Hug.

Ahahava (אהבה) = Love.

Ahot (אחות) = Sister.

Ah (אח) = Brother.

Aba (אבא) = Father.

Ima (אמא) = Mother.

Ahim (אחים) = Siblings.

Mishpaha (משפחה) = Family.

Hamud (חמוד) = Cute // Lovely.

Oy vey zmir! (אוי-ויי זמיר) = Oh my goodness!

Be'ezrat Hashem (בעזרת השם) = With the help of G-D.

Baruch Hashem (ברוך השם) = Thank G-D.

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Ilya Kaminsky, from “A City Like a Guillotine Shivers on Its Way to the Neck”, Deaf Republic

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A richly illustrated miniature book of prayers, Seder Birkat ha-Mazon u-Birkhot ha-Nehenin (Grace after meals and occasional blessings), written and illustrated by Nathan ben Samson of Meseritch (Moravia), 1728

29 folios (70 x 50 mm) on parchment; written in Ashkenazic square and semi-cursive vaybertaytsh (Yiddish instructions)

The early decades of the eighteenth century witnessed a remarkable resurgence in the production of elaborately decorated Hebrew manuscripts when wealthy court Jews in Germany and Central Europe began to commission exquisitely illustrated handwritten Hebrew books as luxury items.

Miniature volumes such as this one, containing a variety of Hebrew prayers and blessings, were frequently commissioned by grooms and presented to their brides on the occasion of their marriage. An inscription penned at the top of the title page of this manuscript indicates that this book was a gift to the bride Sheynkha. The present volume comprises the texts for birkat ha-mazon (grace after meals), birkhot ha-nehenin (blessings over foods and scents), keri’at shema al ha-mittah (recitation of the Shema before retiring), and kiddush levanah (blessing for the New Moon).

The manuscript was created by Nathan ben Samson of Meseritsch, one of the most renowned scribe-artists of the eighteenth century.

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the fundamental problem on this website is that if a homeless person tried to talk to most of y’all you’d be scared out of your minds

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Steinberg

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Decision to Leave (2022) dir. Park Chan Wook

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Crested Guan (Penelope purpurascens), family Cracidae, order Galliformes, Costa Rica

photograph by Edwin Martinez

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“Just because you don’t see results after a day, or even a week, don’t give up. You may not see changes, but every smart choice you make is affecting you in ways you’d never imagine.”

— Unknown

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Young girl dressed as Queen Esther at the Ahrida Synagogue Purim Celebration, Istanbul, 2005

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Amulet for a new born child, from the collection of the Hungarian Jewish Museum

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don’t let anyone tell you you can’t make a change. teach one person to make one place better, and everyone who grows in it will be bettered. for every bettered person, there will be one bettered space where they go. do this, and you sway thousands.

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Slow cooker beef stew

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Wisent - European bison (pol. żubr) photographed in Poland. Image © Wojciech Sobociński via Puszcza Białowieska.

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“Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people.”

— Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart