Understanding Hebrew is the key to experiencing the richness of Jewish prayer. Prayerbook Hebrew the Easy Way teaches the Hebrew found in all Jewish prayerbooks. Designed for students who can read Hebrew words but do not know what they mean, this text explains grammar so simply that the non-academic community can easily understand it. Twenty-one lessons include:
Prayerbook and vocabulary selections are based on several Jewish traditions. This self-paced text is suitable for beginning and intermediate students and is perfect for adult learners.
A supplement to this book, Prayerbook Hebrew the Easy Way Companion Audio Tape Set, is also available.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0
NOT ANOTHER SHELF PRAYER BOOK!:
This book is very popular with the Hebrew students! Amazing how our classes have been looking for a book like this and finally the Third Edition was printed. It is moderately easy and comprehensible and with the deepest of one's heart desire we are studying the Hebrew Prayers. Hopefully, someone is working on BOOK TWO, let's go deeper into the study of the Hebrew prayer.
prayerbook hebrew the easy way:
I am using this book in a classroom setting, so it makes it easier with a teachers instruction. I find it very benificial. I like that it has an answer key in the back, so you can check the exercise parts, and a glossery at the end with the sing, and plur. forms.
Highly recommended for classroom use.
great for getting started:
After you have a cursory understanding of the Hebrew alphabet and language, this book takes the motivated student a step further in to the world of Hebrew prayer. A wonderful resource, great material.
A great place to begin studying Hebrew.....:
This is a good book to begin your study of Biblical/Poetic Hebrew. This book does not use cumbersome latin terminology for parts of speech and grammar, and this book does not assume any previous knowledge of Hebrew, with the exception of undestanding the Hebrew alphabet, pointed vowels, and their associated pronunciations. Thus, this book is easy to use for anyone who knows the Hebrew alphabet, and can pronounce Hebrew words, but doesn't know what those words mean. If you do not know the Hebrew... more info
