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Unlocking the Jewish Prayer Book: Prayerbook Hebrew the Easy Way

"Liturgy of the Prayerbook"
(Fall 2025 - Winter 2026)​
CLICK HERE TO JOIN LIVE SESSIONS
Archive includes "Hebrew Grammar"
(November 2024 - July 2025)

Session 2.12 • November 30, 2025

KABBALAT SHABBAT
More on Welcoming Angels
Candle Lighting
Ana Bakhoakh


​Starts with Slide 323

Session 2.11 • November 23, 2025

Kedushat HaYom
Intro to Kabbalat Shabbat
Shalom Aleikhem


​Starts with Slide 312

Session 2.10 • November 16, 2025

Kedushah – Shabbat a.m. 
Classical Reform Variants​


​Starts with Slide 308

Session 2.9 • November 9, 2025

Gevurot
Kedushah – Private
​Intro to Kedushah – Shabbat a.m.​
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​Starts with Slide 303

Session 2.8 • November 2, 2025

Review of Amidah Structure
Avot 
Start of Gevurot​
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​Starts with Slide 298

"Intercession" • October 26, 2025

Regular Torah Trope Basics
V'ahavta in Regular Torah Trope

V'ahavta Recording in Trope

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Session 2.7 • October 19, 2025

Review of Blessing After Haftarah
Returning Torah
Liturgical Structure and Allegories
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​Starts with Slide 292

Session 2.6 • October 5, 2025

Review of Blessing Before Haftarah
Blessing after Haftarah (Shabbat)
Festival and High Holy Day Changes
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​Starts with Slide 285

Session 2.5 • September 28, 2025

Review of Torah Blessings
Hagbah
Blessing Before Haftarah
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​Starts with Slide 279

Session 2.4 • September 14, 2025

Torah Blessings
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​Starts with Slide 273

Session 2.3 • September 7, 2025

Torah Service III
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​Starts with Slide 265

Session 2.2 • August 31, 2025

Torah Service II
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​Starts with Slide 259

Session 2.1 • August 24, 2025

Torah Service I
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​Starts with Slide 252

Session 1.30 • Asynchronous

Command Forms
Chapter 20 Exercises
Infinitive Forms
Verb Chart
​Starts with Slide 244

Session 1.29 • Asynchronous

Reversing Vav
Future tense of "to be"
Chapter 19 Exercises
Kiddush for Kabbalat Shabbat
​Starts with Slide 234

Session 1.28 • Asynchronous

Future Tense
Chapter 18 Exercises
Adon Olam
​Starts with Slide 223

Session 1.27 • June 22, 2025

Completion of Possessive Plurals
​Introduction to Future Tense
Starts with Slide 214

Session 1.26 • June 15, 2025

Possessive Plurals
Selected Exercises for Chapter 17
Starts with Slide 207

Session 1.25 • June 8, 2025

Review
Discussion
Final Exercises for Chapter 16
Starts with Slide 192

Session 1.24 • June 1, 2025

Review
Exercise 3 (Past Tense of "to be")
Starts with Slide 192

Session 1.23 • May 25, 2025

Review of Past Tense & Direct Object Marker
Intro to This/These, That/Those
Opening Exercises

Starts with Slide 186

Session 1.22 • May 18, 2025

Review of Past Tense
Direct Object Marker
Exercises – Chapter 14

Starts with Slide 178

Session 1.21 • April 27, 2025

Past Tense
Exercises – Chapter 13

Starts with Slide 170

Session 1.20 • April 20, 2025

Review of Prepositions & Present Tense
Introduction to Past Tense
Opening exercises of chapter 13


Starts with Slide 162

Session 1.19 • April 6, 2025

Prepositions II (conjugated)
Torah Blessings
Selected chapter 12 exercises


Starts with Slide 153

Session 1.18 • Mar. 30, 2025

Word Pairs 2: Plurals
Selected chapter 11 exercises

Translation of Amidah 1 • Avot

Starts with Slide 143

Session 1.17 • Mar. 23, 2025

Word Pairs 1: Definite & Indefinite
Selected chapter 10 exercises

Intro to Imperative & Hiph'il Conjugation
Translation of Hashkiveinu

Starts with Slide 134

Session 1.16 • Mar. 16, 2025

Introduction to Prepositions
Selected chapter 9 exercises
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Starts with Slide 125

Session 1.15 • Mar. 9, 2025

Review of Participles (present tense verbs)
Selected chapter 8 exercises
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Starts with Slide 117

Session 1.14 • Feb. 16, 2025

Completion of Chapter 7
Intro to Chapter 8 (Participles)
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Starts with Slide 111

Session 1.13 • Feb. 9, 2025

Exercises, Chapters 7
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Starts with Slide 107

Session 1.12 • Jan. 26, 2025

Exercises, Chapters 6
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Starts with Slide 100

Session 1.11 • Jan. 19, 2025

Exercises, Chapters 5-6
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Starts with Slide 95

Session 1.10 • Jan. 12, 2025

Exercises, Chapter 4-5
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Starts with Slide 89

Session 1.9 • Jan. 5, 2025

Exercises, Chapter 4
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Starts with Slide 82

Session 1.8 • Dec. 29, 2024

Rebooting
Exercises, chapters 1-3
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Starts with Slide 72

Session 1.7 • Dec. 22, 2024

Practice: Maoz Tzur
Direct Object Markers
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Starts with Slide 65

Session 1.6 • Dec. 15, 2024

Review of Present Tense / Participles
More on Prepositions
Word Pairs
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Starts with Slide 55

Session 1.5 • Dec. 8, 2024

Review
Ahavat Olam
Introduction to Hebrew Verbs
Present Tense / Participle


Starts with Slide 43

Session 1.4 • Dec. 1, 2024

Review
Reading Practice (Torah)
V'ahavta 


Starts with Slide 36

Session 1.3 • Nov. 24, 2024

Review
Introduction to Prepositions
​Introduction to Possessives
Construct Forms
Liturgical examples


Starts with Slide 24

Session 1.2 • Nov. 17, 2024

Review
Introduction to Nouns and Adjectives
Possessives and Constructs
Liturgical examples


Starts with Slide 13

Session 1.1 • Nov. 10, 2024

Introduction • Methods & Goals
The Structure of Hebrew
The Zero Copula • "To Be or Not To Be"
The Definite Article • "The"
The ​Conjunction • "And"


Starts with Slide 1

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