Avshalom Farjun is a teacher of Spoken Arabic, Palestinian dialect, from beginner to advanced. He researches the interrelationships between Hebrew and Arabic, from the language of the Bible to the present day. Farjun is also a qanun player, and he formed the Bustan Avraham band. Together with Buthayna Shahadeh, he is the author of a collection of Arabic sayings and stories (בְּאֵין גְּבָרִים קָרְאוּ לַתַּרְנְגוֹל אַבּוּ עַלִי), and another of Arabic jokes (وَقِّف تّقُولَّك / שְמע קטע), both with Hebrew translation, transcription, and explanatory notes. To learn about his classes, see here.
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The young women in the Song of Songs (2:15) repurpose a bucolic ditty to suggestively beckon young men. The key to their entendre is in the Arabic cognate for the verb לְחַבֵּל.
The young women in the Song of Songs (2:15) repurpose a bucolic ditty to suggestively beckon young men. The key to their entendre is in the Arabic cognate for the verb לְחַבֵּל.