THE SOUL OF HEBREW | Sami Bsoul

A Hebrew expression can mean one thing and reveal something else entirely.

Behind the words lie the habits of a culture: sharp humour, impatience, affection, irony, and ways of seeing the world that no dictionary can fully explain.

This is the Hebrew people use with one another, where a phrase carries more than its literal meaning and a tiny change can alter the whole feeling of a sentence.

You begin by learning what the words mean. Then you start to understand why people say them that way.

And Hebrew begins to reveal more than its vocabulary.

◆To know a language is to hear what its words leave unsaid.

Édition française L'âme de l'hébreu
Edición en español El alma del hebreo
Deutsche Ausgabe Die Seele des Hebräischen
Edição em português A alma do hebraico
Edizione italiana L'anima dell'ebraico