Hebrew - Creation - Free Biblical Hebrew - Lesson 43

The seven days of God's creation: a simplified telling of Genesis 1-2:3.
Corrections:
at 10:50 it should be מְלַאכְתָּהּ
at 7:33 it should be וַיְבָרֶךְ
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[@carlosalonsovargas8717]

This video is simply superb, not just because of its content in terms of the Hebrew language and the account of creation, but because of the visual content. ¡Gracias, simplemente estupendo!

[@Ronald47798]

This is superb. I 'cannot' believe that we are now really reading the creation story in Hebrew! Thank you Bet and Avram.

[@JaxCover]

Yes!!! Please more like this. Scripture with picture/ video defining the words or actions. Thank you so much for your hard work.

[@mathassu4701]

I am from Brazil. Hi. I cried in many times through the video! All what I have to say to all of you is THANK YOU!

[@beebell7288]

This is my favorite video so far, I’ve watched it several times. I can’t thank you enough for your channel, all the community of Hebrew learners should be grateful to you. Todah rabah!

Me he quedado sin palabras para catalogar este nuevo trabajo. lo hermoso que suena cada pasaje, como poesía, como si hubieran sido testigos presenciales de todo cuanto narran y además hacen que podamos vivirlo también. Se me olvido que intento aprender hebreo. Creo que las palabras no pasaron por mi mente, me ha llegado directo al corazón. 💔💔💔בבקשה

[@veramiranda8968]

eu tambem estou maravilhada comigo mesma.Estou lendo genesis

[@josephlevay8007]

Lkii🎉🎉

[@mommab8205]

I'm only on lesson 3 (= 3th day of preschool), stuck on conjunctions. When it gets frustrating, I keep coming back to this video. I don't comprehend half the words you are saying, but every time you say אלהימ ...wow! One day I'll be reading it with you בּ God has gifted you and Avram with a beautiful ministry. Thank you for sharing it with the world. שלומ

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[@peterstaples1]

What a beautiful video: the Hebrew, the pictures, the music, the spirit ... It's all there. Wonderful !

[@christinegracejohn]

I learned Hebrew from your channel. It's, really a blessing.

[@mgrace5086]

I LOVE every bits of your work here. Thank you so much for making Hebrew so easy, accessible and down to earth. God bless you and your work.

[@fernandoladeira3727]

Assistindo e aprendendo desde o Brasil em final de julho de 2023. Maravilha de aula Deus abençoe muito este canal 🙏✋❤

[@fayezmina3187]

Thank you for reading the chapter thrice with illustratins

[@nathanbloechl9466]

Thank you Beth and Avram again for your work! Maybe I am getting ahead of myself, but where would you suggest I start reading on a daily basis from my BHS readers addition? (i.e. a particular book that is easier like narrative?)

[@AlephwithBeth]

Hi Nathaniel, most narrative is easier than poetry, but there is no particular narrative book that is "easy Hebrew," so you will find complex grammar and vocabulary everywhere. Many people start with Jonah or Ruth because they're shorter/more manageable to finish. I like the first half of Exodus too, and the story of Elijah is fun. Surprisingly, Jeremiah has some passages with simpler vocabulary. But if your main experience with Hebrew so far is with our videos up through lesson 43, then you'll probably find that the unsimplified biblical text is still quite hard to plough through. At this point we still have lots of grammar and vocab to cover in the videos before most of our followers will be ready to tackle the original text without getting discouraged. The Readers Edition will definitely be a help though! All the best! :)

[@halissonenefitala8402]

Thank you very much. I follow the lessons in daily basis

[@jacobmetz3109]

בראשׁית אני רוצה לאמר כי כל אשׁר אתם עושׂים טוב מאוד...תודה רבה. ובזה אני רוצה להזכיר אותך מעט דקדוק. ב”10:58 דגשׁ קל צריך להיות בתיו הסופית בתיבה מלאכתה בעבור אחרי כל שׁוא נח צורכות בגדכפת את הדגשׁ הקל.

[@AlephwithBeth]

יעקב, תודה רבה

[@eliomarocchi9007]

Qué el Eterno los bendiga al ciento y al mil por uno. Preciosa enseñanza. Muchísimas Gracias. Todah raba. Tob meod !!!

[@aelinsardothien8926]

I wonder, how many of us guys watching actually keep the Sabbath?

[@heartfortorah]

We all should as it's the Fourth Commandment - Exodus 20:8-11 “REMEMBER YOM SHABBAT TO KEEP IT HOLY. You are to work six days, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Shabbat to YHVH your God. In it you shall not do any work-not you, nor your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, your cattle, nor the outsider that is within your gates. For in six days YHVH made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Thus YHVH blessed Yom Shabbat, and made it holy.

[@lllllAcunhalllll]

Bufff... Demasiado bueno. Idea para "Aleph with Beth 2.0": Cuando "acabéis" con toda la gramática, sería genial ir teniendo así cada vez más textos bíblicos ;) Gracias por lo que hacéis! Que Dios bendiga este proyecto

[@AlephwithBeth]

Siii precisamente eso nos gustaría hacer

[@dennisburns7024]

"Let there be light" was such a powerful command! I love how concise Hebrew is, too. I sense an economy of characters like including personal pronouns in verbs, adding truncated conjunctions and prepositions to words, adding the possessive case to the end of nouns, and so forth. Blessings to you both for opening up Biblical Hebrew to me and thousands of others. It seemed to be locked, bolted and chained behind vaulted doors with little access to the average Christian, due to it's complexity, strange alphabet, cryptic pronunciation, and availability in most areas outside of certain colleges, universities and seminaries. Thank You! Thank You! Thank You!

[@bvochelet]

hod paham (encore une fois) : bravo.

[@estebanfraile985]

Thanks, is a miracle to me to understand hebrew, excuse my english , is not enough to say thanks.(i have to study english...)

[@kabalankay]

Bugororaabu bata Emitay, bujake noon!! Kusalaal Ateemit! Jêrijeef, Abram ko di Beth, jêrijeef! Emitay mb'encaamul jak?! ☺️ El trabajo de Dios es tan hermoso, tan increíble! Gracias, Abram y Beth, gracias! Dios tiene la recompensa para ustedes! 😍

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Muy, muy lindo. Gracias.

[@pasqualepaolillo3172]

Ouah Heloim MIRFATH???????

[@כורשמשרתו]

כל הכבוד, אני ממש צריך לקרוא את ישעיהו ועדיין לא כל כך מצליח על זה

[@ruthchappell9073]

Oh wow, I did not know that the verb שבת literally means to stop doing something! I need to think about that for a while...

[@iviscuza4046]

SHALOM BET Y HABRAN GRACIAS POR LAS CLACES POR TODO ME GUSTAN Y APRENDO . TODA RABA

[@rogeliocoronel5630]

Llegado a este capítulo uno se da cuenta de todo lo aprendido sutil y progresivamente en los capítulos anteriores..y es mucho y en muy poco tiempo, mucho más que 2 años en la Escuela de Idiomas. Felicidades y gracias por vuestro trabajo!! . 😘

[@jesusprieto2692]

Excelente, me gustaría tener la oportunidad de practicar con alguien lo que aprendo con estas hermosas lecciones, saludos y bendiciones a todo el equipo que hace posible que este material llegue a todos los que queremos aprender hebreo biblico👍

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HOLA ES UNA PENA Q NO HAYA VISTO ESTE MENSAJE ANTES YO SIEMPRE HE BUSCADO ALGUIEN Q QUIERA PRACTICAR. YA USTED DEBE ESTAR MUY ADELANTADO. NO SÉ EL MOTIVO Q LA MAYORIA D LAS PERSONAS Q ESTUDIAN HEBREO. NISIQUIERA CONTESTAN A ALGUIEN COMO USTED Y YO Q QUEREMOS PRACTICAR. NO M EXPLICO EL PORQ. MIL BENDICIONES.

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@@iviscuza2570 Hola Ivis, como estas

[@ejns2333]

Thanks to the whole team for all your hard work in producing these fantastic videos. I was wondering why the conjunctive vav isn't shuruk before "bohu"?

[@AlephwithBeth]

Thanks! When two nouns go together as a special pair, the conjunctive vav often takes the special form וָ. Tohu va-vohu is an example of a special pair connected by וָ. You're correct, if it weren't for that, we would expect shureq instead.

[@ejns2333]

@@AlephwithBeth Thanks.

[@graxav]

Todah rabah! I have a question I hope you will answer - 'וַֽיְהִי־ אֽוֹר׃' - I hear most Hebrew speakers pronounce the Sh'va in וַֽיְהִי - ie - vay(e)hi and not vay'hi - is this just tradition or is there a rule for this combination of consonants?

[@pinoccio25]

The wonders of YHWH creations 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁

[@2406naomi]

Interesting that the verb to create is”bara”for the beginning and for people, but “Asher”for other things he made….

[@tymmiara5967]

Do you think there is a connection between the number 7 (Sheva) and the word Shabat (finish)? It seems they have a mutual root, and it would be a strange coincidence that the word for finishing would have anything to do with seven if it were not for the creation story.

[@AlephwithBeth]

Hi Tymoteusz, no I don't think there's probably a connection. Although the two words have two root letters in common (shin & bet), the final root letter is different (ayin vs. tav). So any similarity is probably coincidence. The verb שׁבת probably means more like "to cease" or "to stop" instead of "to finish," which is usually expressed with the verb כלה.

[@SylviadRohy0037]

Genesis 1 11 And God said: 'Let the earth put forth grass, herb yielding seed, and fruit-tree bearing fruit after its kind, God said to the ground

[@giovannimarano5502]

Buongiorno. Vorrei seguire il vostro Corso... però non conosco la vostra lingua. Vi prego traduce in Italiano!!!

[@David67735]

Nice

[@gudiphilips2368]

Abraham daughter shalom : How ? I can understand pls sister beside tell in English language todah

[@mariondapsance7803]

I guess we should all learn this passage by heart. Will try!

[@SUSAN777KADOSH]

K bello.

[@Wyzz222]

Is 'yehi' in 'yehi or' related to any of the forms we have learned so far? I think it's similar to 'vayehi' (there was), and it seems to be some 'imperfective form' but I'm not sure what that exactly entails. It also doesn't seem to be an imperative to 'be' something (which the ordinary translation 'let there be light' seems to imply)

[@AlephwithBeth]

"yehi" is what is called a jussive form, which expresses a desire like "may it be/let it be." Yes, the form is similar to the vayyiqtol form vayehi. The jussive form is the same as the vayyiqtol form stripped of "va."

[@Wyzz222]

@@AlephwithBeth Thanks!

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God bless you from Panama 🇵🇦

[@vamu9186]

Do tehom תְּהוֹם and tohu תֹּהוּ have the same root?

[@paulocaproni7534]

Beautifully done, clearly explained. Could someone please remind me the root of "vaivarech"? Is it "haiah"? 11:12

[@AlephwithBeth]

Thank you! The word ויברך comes from בֵּרַךְ "to bless"

[@paulocaproni7534]

@@AlephwithBeth Saquei! Obrigado :)

[@darcigoulart]

טוב מאוד

[@arjuna-fn2pg]

Just curious: why is the verb מְרַחֶ֖פֶת omitted from verse 2? -- Greetings from Finland, from a Sanskrit (and Hebrew) freak! 🥴

[@AlephwithBeth]

Because we haven't taught it yet.

[@RedmanJohn888]

Thanks Beth.This one really stands out to me since it relates to the Genesis question I emailed you about recently. The point was made abundantly clear that God indeed "rested" or "ceased" on the seventh day. I almost feel like this video was made with me in mind.

[@jacobmetz3109]

One has to be careful in the idea that rest, as far as the Biblical meanings of לשׁבות , לנוח and לנפשׁ are concerned, means that one needs to rest in the modern sense of the word. Rest, Biblically, simply meant to stop or cease from doing a thing. The ark of Noah, for example, came to rest on the mountains of Ararat---meaning that it stopped floating on the waters.

[@AlephwithBeth]

That's true, we were talking about this same verb!

[@iviscuza2570]

TODA RABA BET Y HABRAHAN . MIL BENDICIONES

[@Uneautrevieviedeplus-ql4dr]

Vous êtes un don de Dieu pour moi Merxi bcp

[@MrCEPPaulT]

I like this short story of creation.

[@katiepeacock8015]

Rewatching this and appreciating all the care that went into introducing the vocabulary ahead of time so that when creation was presented it could be read with ease.

[@pierreabbat6157]

Can you find a picture of רחף? Is there any connection between מלאכה and מלאך?

[@jacobmetz3109]

Both words are from the root לאך and means to dispatch or to send [with authority]. The English angel comes from a similar root angelo which means to send with a message. One of the coolest verses about the definition of these two is Haggai 1:13 וַ֠יֹּאמֶר חַגַּ֞י מַלְאַ֧ךְ יְהֹוָ֛ה בְּמַלְֽאֲכ֥וּת יְהֹוָ֖ה לָעָ֣ם לֵאמֹ֑ר אֲנִ֥י אִתְּכֶ֖ם נְאֻם־יְהֹוָֽה׃ Then Haggai the Lord’s messenger [מלאך] spoke the Lord’s message [מלאכות] to the people, saying, I am with you, says the Lord. The idea behind the noun מלאכה is that it is a task done either for hire or as service. The service of the Tabernacle, the task of the Levites, is called מלאכה as well as עבודה. When in reference to the day of Shabbath, we are to cease from our task---not become zombies like most Orthodox Jews misunderstand it. This is made abundantly clear by the commandment itself שֵׁ֤שֶׁת יָמִים֙ תַּֽעֲבֹ֔ד וְעָשִׂ֖יתָ כָּל־מְלַאכְתֶּֽךָ׃ Six days you shall serve [לעבוד] and do [לעשׂות] your tasks [מלאכתך] No matter how one looks at it, the melakhah that was to be ceased [להשׁבת] was one of service [עבודה].

[@SionSheva5756]

שלום עליכם!

[@jesusstudentbrett]

אתם עשים עבודה יפה וטובה עוד מאוד. 🙏

[@joyancejames]

Thank you so much for your hard work. I've systematically watched and learned and I've been blessed. Keep up the great work. God bless 🙏

[@iviscuza4046]

GRACIAS BET Y HABRAN LOS AMAMOS

[@irinaborisoff5758]

Could you comment on 'tohu vavohu'? The Finnish translation uses words 'desolete' and 'empty' which don't seem to connect with your pictures. Is the phrase used elsewhere in ancient texts?

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[@n.bacquia5793]

WISH LIST: Beth reading Genesis 1 -- the whole chapter, just a straight reading, with no attempt at teaching or simplifying. Don't get me wrong: your teaching videos, including this one, are extremely instructive and helpful. But I wish to hear a straight reading of the Hebrew Bible in Beth's clear enunciation and beautiful voice. It would be such a blessed gift.

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Hermoso aprender asi... beautifull learn this way!! Congratulations!!!

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Simplemente bellísimo

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tks... very good! Fantastic!! i´m learn very mutch

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I like this one. Love the dramatization. It's exciting.

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merciiii 🌸 l'hebreux est un langage si agréable ! Vous êtes une professeure excellente 🌞🙏🏼

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Shalom morah

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thanks you^^

[@andrewo7328]

I wonder who is involved in video editing and getting a selection of such excellent samples for video?

[@AlephwithBeth]

Beth does all of it herself. She's amazing! (Avram here)

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L'esprit plane?

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Excelente vídeo.

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Au commencement Dieu créa le ciel et la terre🔥💜🔥shalom beth

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שלום בית

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[@roseleaming3240]

what's tahom mean?

[@AlephwithBeth]

The deep, or the abyss

[@roseleaming3240]

@@AlephwithBeth Thank you!

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muito bom amei

[@christophesutter1844]

Shalom 🔥💜🔥