Monday, November 07, 2005

The Hebrew Song

How I Love Hebrew
(Hava Nagila)

1. Hebrew, how I love Hebrew
It’s written backwards, in ancient text OY VEY!

Aleph, bet, gimel, dalet, heh, vav
Zayin, chet, tet, yod, kaph, lamed

Mem, nun, samech, ayin, pe, pe tsadi
Tsadi, qoph, resh, sin, shin, tav

2. There are no vowels in Hebrew
Just dots and dashed below or above

Vowels have, only 3 classes
2 a’s and 3’I’s and 3 u’s

patah, qames, segol, sere, hireq
qibbus, holem, and qames hatup

3. Sometimes vowels need their matres
heh, vav and yod make vowels sound long

Vav and yod, can be within words
But heh can only be at the end

Sureq vav is another "u" sound
And when you look you see shewas all around


Hebrew how I love Hebrew
It’s written backwards, in ancient text

OY VEY!

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