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The Hebrew word for winter is ‘horef’. Please bear with me if you don’t know Hebrew; I’ll teach you some. Let’s start with the ‘het’:
This letter is pronounced with the strong constricting sound in the back of your throat.
And does anyone know what holiday begins with a het? (Look in the window at the right side of my scribble at top).
Next letter in ‘horef’ is the ‘reish’:
There is a holiday in the middle of the winter that is called the New Year for Trees (Rosh Hashanah L’Elanot). And wouldn’t you know it, the ‘New’ in Hebrew is translated as ‘Rosh’, so it begins with a ‘reish’. The holiday is called Tu B’Shvat. It may be strange to us in more northern climates that a tree holiday is in the middle of winter, but the buds in Israel start early.
Finally, the last letter in ‘horef’ is a pey-sofit, an ending pey:
This is the beginning letter of a holiday that occurs toward the end of winter. Anyone know that holiday, that begins with a ‘P’ in English?
This little acronym of the winter Jewish holidays was created by our friend James Moché. James told me he was willing to have me post this as long as when it gets spread all over the internet, it has his name on it.
Very cool post! Nice of your friend to share his acronym!
Nice acronym. Thanks for sharing, and thanks to James Moche too.
Very nice post, Leora!
i love this! thanks for sharing. your “scribble” is great too!!!! such a talent you have.
JAMES:
very cute
Good learning device, I’ll try it on my grandson.
And you did that drawing? Sweet!!
Thanks for your comment now. Yeah, it’s funny how your hardly ever see an Israeli without a cell phone on the ear, not even in a mural. I have quite a few stealth photos of monks in habit talking on their cell phone (but not in their cell, in public) which always somehow looks incongruous for some reason.
Dina, I’m trying to do a little more artwork on the blog, as the weather outside is so gray, no strong desire to photograph much here. Sometimes even a “scribble” can liven up a post.
Great post and great artwork! Sweet.
Well done Leora, I could not have said it better (or illustrated it better)! Thanks for giving me the nod on this one. Sometimes Hebrew words seem to reflect the power of some unseen hand. Coincidence or not, you be the judge.
Hag urim sameach,
James
Great post Leora…
I like the tree you drew, I always had a hard time making a tree!
cute acronym there.