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2013 Goals – Hebrew
I’ve saved for my final goals post the most challenging one I have this year – getting a handle on Hebrew. I’ve written before about my challenges with languages in general, and with Hebrew in particular. Its been a hard … Continue reading
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Tagged 2013 goals, biblical hebrew, hebrew, learning hebrew, teaching yourself hebrew, the shema
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The Year That Was
About a week ago I was doing a loop around the park when I was passed by a member of my running club. In the summer of 2011, when I was running strong and setting PRs, he and I were … Continue reading
Posted in Hebrew, Navel Gazing
Tagged learning hebrew, personal ponderings, running, year in review
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A Plan for the Holidays
Eighty hour works weeks, buying a condo, traveling for the holidays. Excuses, excuses, excuses. E-fucking-nough. I’ve got to get a regular running and studying routine going, and its got to happen now. To help that along I’m taking a page … Continue reading
Posted in Hebrew, Running
Tagged hebrew, holiday running streak, learning hebrew, run streak, runners world holiday run streak, running streak
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A Hebrew Update
In yet another attempt to keep on task regarding my Hebrew study, I’m going to update the study once a week. It’s been rough, as many of you noted, doing this on my own is difficult. This week I managed … Continue reading
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Tagged hebrew, hebrew vowels, learning hebrew, Masoretes, masoretic texts
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Studying in Public: Keeping My Nose in the Books on the High Holidays
One of the leading scholars of the Dead Sea Scrolls prays at a modern orthodox synagogue I have attended on occasion.* While he prays, he keeps open before him a number of books – midrashim on the Torah and Talmud, … Continue reading
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Tagged ancient languages, hebrew, high holidays, learning hebrew, rosh hashanah, yum kippur
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A Hebrew Study Plan
While there have been some ups and downs in my fitness training recently, I think all in all things are going well. My running is pain free, the climbing is getting better, and I’m losing weight. All good news. Hebrew … Continue reading
Numbers 7.9.2012 – 7.15.2012
Numbers 7.9-7.15 Total Hours of Exercise: ~8:30 Running : 11.6 miles in ~1:50 Cycling Time: ~00:00 Strength and Flexibility Time (stretching, lifting and bodyweight work): ~1:30 Climbing ~3:40 Other (hiking) 4.5 miles ~1:30 (5 pound pack) Hebrew Study Time: ~0:45 … Continue reading
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Week in Review: Ending 5/13/2012
Scheduling. It always comes down to scheduling. I work fifty to sixty hours a week, I’m married, I have a social life, where does study and working out fit in? Sometimes it isn’t easy, lately it has been downright impossible. … Continue reading
Learning Hebrew
Generally, a classical education in the western sense begins with Latin. The languages use of roman characters, status as the grandfather of the romance languages, and deep influence on English all make it much easier to lean than, say, Greek. … Continue reading
