http://blog.eteacherhebrew.com Learn Hebrew Online with eTeacher Wed, 09 May 2012 07:54:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://blog.eteacherhebrew.com/jewish-holidays/why-do-we-light-bonfires-on-lag-baomer/ http://blog.eteacherhebrew.com/jewish-holidays/why-do-we-light-bonfires-on-lag-baomer/#comments Tue, 08 May 2012 06:51:29 +0000 Iris Dahan http://blog.eteacherhebrew.com/?p=4639 Shalom friends, this month we celebrate the Jewish Holiday: Lag Baomer. Lag Baomer is celebrated on the 33 day of the Counting of the Omer . It occurs on the 18th day of Chodesh Iyar. The Talmud states that on this day, Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai (Rashbi), passed away. Rabbi Shimon was a Jewish commentary rabbi [...]]]> http://blog.eteacherhebrew.com/jewish-holidays/why-do-we-light-bonfires-on-lag-baomer/feed/ 1 http://blog.eteacherhebrew.com/israel-history/israels-64th-birthday/ http://blog.eteacherhebrew.com/israel-history/israels-64th-birthday/#comments Tue, 24 Apr 2012 06:25:15 +0000 Iris Dahan http://blog.eteacherhebrew.com/?p=4612 ” The land of Israel was the birthplace of the Jewish people. Here their spiritual, religious and national identity was formed. Here they achieved independence and created a culture of national and universal significance. Here they wrote and gave the Bible to the world”… ” בארץ-ישראל קם העם היהודי, בה עוצבה דמותו הרוחנית, הדתית והמדינית, [...]]]> http://blog.eteacherhebrew.com/israel-history/israels-64th-birthday/feed/ 0 http://blog.eteacherhebrew.com/israel-history/yom-hazikaron-lashoah-velagvurah/ http://blog.eteacherhebrew.com/israel-history/yom-hazikaron-lashoah-velagvurah/#comments Mon, 16 Apr 2012 06:04:00 +0000 Iris Dahan http://blog.eteacherhebrew.com/?p=4601 Each year on the 27th of Nisan, the state of Israel marks the Holocaust Remembrance Day. This day, was established in 1953 by the first Prime Minister of Israel –David Ben Gurion, to remember the Holocaust and the 6 million Jews who were killed by the Nazis in Europe during World War II. This year, [...]]]> http://blog.eteacherhebrew.com/israel-history/yom-hazikaron-lashoah-velagvurah/feed/ 2 http://blog.eteacherhebrew.com/jewish-holidays/matzoth-recipes-for-passover/ http://blog.eteacherhebrew.com/jewish-holidays/matzoth-recipes-for-passover/#comments Sat, 31 Mar 2012 17:38:18 +0000 Iris Dahan http://blog.eteacherhebrew.com/?p=4588 Shalom friends, this year on April 6, Jews all around the world will celebrate the Passover Seder. Passover is an eight day festival. It is celebrated in the early spring, from the 15th through the 22nd of the Hebrew month of Nissan. This holiday represents freedom which commemorates the Jews’ Exodus from slavery in Egypt. [...]]]> http://blog.eteacherhebrew.com/jewish-holidays/matzoth-recipes-for-passover/feed/ 8