Welcome, and chag sameach! Here's a link where you can view and download the slides:https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1wVu1FVSO8u9vI2htXnn2cs0XVr0ka32Wm2hjDiHHyYM/edit?usp=sharing

Noah and Sarit, y'all always look so happy to be here, and it makes me smile. :)

Happy Hanukkah! Hadass here, she/they in freezing Winnipeg, Treaty 1 Territory, excited to be here.

Roan, tired and full!

Bridget here! My pronouns are she/her and I'm feeling tired, but in a good way. (Looking forward to getting a good night's rest a bit later)

Emmett, they/them, and I'm feeling kind of emotionally fragile tonight for no particular reason? But also very glad to be here.

Nat, they/them, feeling relieved

Welcome, and chag sameach! Here's a link where you can view and download the slides:https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1wVu1FVSO8u9vI2htXnn2cs0XVr0ka32Wm2hjDiHHyYM/edit?usp=sharing

hiii — molly, she or they, feeling a bit scattered and bubbbly. Big love to facilitators and space holders <3

hi everyone! Laynie, they/them, I'm landing <3

nicolia, they/she, a little off kilter

Jules here (she/her) feeling like there aren’t enough versions of me to do everything that I want to do.

And with Noah's cat!

“It wouldn’t be grammar class without a little bit of magic” sarit, you gem.

I'm gonna light candles with my partner later, but y'all can check out my awesome LED hanukkiah that a friend made for me!

whoa emmett

Hello from debra, she/her, in Philly. Enjoying the solstice candle I lit along with my menorah tonight, and also sleepy

Full credit to Rain (my friend) for the idea, and for making one for me! :)

It's super cool though!

Dedicating my learning today to my Queer Talmud for Beginners' Mind class that just finished

We have an LED hanukkiah in the window along with the traditional ones too, Emmett. My spouse made it. So cool.

This is the night that Shammai and Hillel cross over …

So neat! Technology is super cool.

Also Noah your cat is perfect

dedicating my learning to the healing of 3 of my chosen fam members: Shoshana Devorah bat Freda tzipia (surgery), asher feigaleh chaim mibet sara & Avraham (cold) and gavriel ben Sarah (COVID)and especially to my beloved alex barr who is waiting to hear back from a biopsy but likely has cancer for the 3rd timeso so much healing to these beloveds

amen amen amen <3

Amen!

pssshhhhhh

Dedicating my learning to all the people of Treaty 1 territory, traditional territory of the Anishinaabeg, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota, and Dene Peoples, and the National Homeland of the Red River Métis.

Okay, sidebar, but if anybody hasn't looked up the root for "la'asok" yet, highly recommend it. It's a cool set of meanings.

Wait until you are my age, then nouns will REALLY confound you, LOL.

How do we understand nouns? What are our associations with nouns? What do you feel when you think of nouns?

Thanks, Bridget and Jason and Mayim! Never enough time!

OMG that was short! Thanks Emmett and Molly!

💫💞

Can it be a phrase?

Nouns exist outside of time!

Bad noun days are a thing.

"bad noun days"

simpler

grasp-able

nonspecific / lack of nuance?

usually concrete - and that can be comforting, or at least not confusing

Unpacking how words unveil colonial structures

אַצטאָרס

utilitarian

oops lol

actors*

"grounded" might be a more positive way to understand them as distinct from verbs maybe?

"outside of time" reminds me of Heschel's Sabbath (which admittedly I have still not read all of)

describing the world

two types of nouns - maybe there's more! those are... nouns. [laughs] plain ol' nouns. and the other ones are participles

“next year in knowledge of that” kein yehi ratson.

Thanks, Nat!

s'michut

it's a verb or a noun depending on how you use it

in English you have more explicit patterns, but yes

In English I tend to think of it as a "noun form" of a verb

in english are the noun versions always callled gerunds?

like “ing" forrms

in Engish = ing ending

or are participles also noun-y in english?

(there are past participles, they end in -ed -en, etc. ing is present participles)

yes like “guard” guard = human who guards. or guard, as in I will guard the house (verb), or adjective (guard house)

Nat "the grounding is slow", for example -- you can use them as nouns

According to Grammarly, they can work as an adjective or as a noun: https://www.grammarly.com/blog/participle/

"he who writes"

Nicolia, or guard as a person :O ?

yeah exactly

Sarit! From our QTBM passage -- "hachoshesh bigrono"!

Yes! <3

@Emmett is that someone who thinks they might be sick?

The text/hint sheet is here:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wnlG-mk8PhGh894PMM4BEz76l1bzvWR_z5OOCgeZ_ws/edit

"One who is sick in their throat" was approximately how we translated It I think?

This is the insert for the Amidah for winter, right?

In modern Hebrew choshesh would be fears, but it's the same root as feeling.

@Emmett, yes!

Don't think that's in the Amidah.

Oh never mind. You were talking about the doc. Yes, it is.

The text/hint sheet is here:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wnlG-mk8PhGh894PMM4BEz76l1bzvWR_z5OOCgeZ_ws/edit

Ah, we weren't done!

thanks Molly, that was totally amazing.

That's okay! Wherever you got to is perfect!

very same, hadass!

that was so much fun!

It was just a shock, LOL. If there was a warning I didn't see it.

🌦️ such dreamy juiciness, Hadass! I didn’t even realize we were closing

We were deeply engrossed in Jastrow!

Loved this! Thank you to Jason for chavruta-ing with me!

here are the first two words in block print:

מַשִּׁיב הָרוּחַ

vet

it is in Hebrew too

i meant reish yud chet sorry

the root we got was resh-vav-vav-chet — a third option? or maybe we just wandered away

The

Okay, question. If mashiv is working as a verb, wouldn't it have to be "mashiv ET haruach" since "haruach" is definite? So does that mean mashiv has to be a noun here?

^that's what we are about to get to Emmett (why we don't have "et")

I think Mashiv is definitely a noun here.

chicken soupice creamspell book

sorry

thanks to Annie Kaufman for teaching me about s’michut!

definite object marker :)

same, LOL

next 2 words in block print:וּמוֹרִיד הַגֶּשֶׁם

I think its so relevant! Rain as authority!

defenistrater

We wondered about the bit about Joseph causing the royal astronomers to be removed from authority ...

Omg debra that’s so good

opening the window of heaven!

gashmiut means physicality in Hassidic literature. I never made the connection before. So cool.

the one who causes the rain to fall

<3

@hadass -- gashmiut … So would that parse as, like … "down-edness" or "groundedness" in the physicality sense?

@mayim, I love your excitement. :)

Im screaming!!!! the verb ‘to be’ frozen in time!!

http://www.jewishlights.com/page/product/978-1-58023-213-5

I see this category (mosheev and moreed) as... the noun is defined by the verb that it is currently (or regularly) engaged in-- but ultimately it is still a noun --we are talking about that being/object/et ceteraI'm curious if it's possible to know if the noun is reffering to something that regularly does the action or is doing it now. Is that one binyan versus another?

also sorry for interrupted in the chat earlier! and noticing that my native English speaking mind want to make this a simple verb noun verb noun but it's actually blurrier than that

While learning my body felt so invigorated. Like truly bubby/buzzy and full of potential. My mind had a hard time grasping the noun/verb which is it both it is, and returning to the conversation and jastrow and my body positionality as ground

Gashmi'ut, @Molly!

Can we please continue this class? Part 2?

what 40-page article?

incidentally, I've been trying to think of a single English verb that could translate "cause to blow" as distinct from "blow" and I can't!

Is the one offered in the spring zman a continuation or the same?

@hadass <3 oof that’s so good.

This is Korra, my licker-of-faces

She causes the face to be licked

She does indeed. :)

lolz

mine was digital! </3

danced naked under the stars, with vigor and slowness

I don't have work of my own, but if you like my background, check out Maimonides Nutz on IG and Twitter.

LOL molly it's too freaking cold!

I failed to draw a thing because I was distracted by my dog licking my face … But I imagined like quick changes during a musical? Like where the verbs are the actors who do quick changes to play different characters in the play.

https://www.instagram.com/maimonides_nutz/?hl=en

Thanks to both of you, I wish you were doing a 10 week zman! Maybe next year??

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Thank you both (all) so much!!

oh jinx :)

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Thank you! Thank you!

Thank you so much <3

thank you all so much!!!

thank you Noah, thank you Sarit! I am so enlivened by learning with and from all of y'all

thank you so much. truly lovely

basking and reveling in gratitude. 💫

thanks to all my chevrusa partners :)

amen!!!

thank you. this is a really lovely way to learn and absorb these verb forms and their possibilities. I feel soul nourished <3

Thanks so much to everyone!

thanks so much, y'all! lovely and powerful and at the edges of where I can think - just where I need to be <3