How to Navigate the 929 Website When you go to 929.org.il, you’ll see something like this:

In the upper right corner, next to the colorful 929 logo, you’ll see what book you are in … … and also what chapter. All the way over in the upper right corner of the web page is the HE button:

On the 929 app, you’ll find it when you tap the control bars at the upper left:

In either case, click HE to transfer to the Hebrew site. Now the logo is in the upper right corner … … the EN button to switch back to English is now on the opposite side of the screen … … and there’s a quick link to SoundCloud to listen to today’s chapter in Hebrew.

(On the app you may have to slide across slightly to see it.) Just as on the English site, the name of the book ( לאוי = Joel) is a drop-down menu that lets

you switch to another book:

The first level of the drop-down menu offers you the 3 sections of the Hebrew Bible: Torah

Nevi’im [Prophets]

Ketuvim [Writings]

You can expand each as necessary:

Bereshit [Genesis]

Shemot [Exodus]

Vayikra [Leviticus]

Bemidbar [Numbers]

Devarim [Deuteronomy]

Remember that the rest of the Bible is arranged differently in a Hebrew Bible than in Christian Bibles. (Read more about that here … in “Whose Bible Is It?,” the introduction to The Bible’s Many Voices … or listen to Episode 2 of the Many Voices podcast.)

See below if you need help with the Prophets and Writings drop-down menus. Right now,

we want to navigate to Numbers 22. (Why? Because that’s the chapter used for the exercises in my Biblical Hebrew course for the Teaching Company.)

Now let’s click on הרות and then on רבדמב .

Now we see this at the top of the screen:

בכ Chapter 2, and so forth. Chapter 22 is ב ,indicates Chapter 1 א , all the way over to the

left. (I’ll explain the Hebrew letters = numerals system in a separate post). So let’s click on that. If we had needed a later chapter, we could click on this arrow to slide the selector bar over; on the app, you can just slide it yourself. ( עיובש םוכיס , sikkum shevui, means “weekly summary.”)

Now Chapter 22 is front and center, with the SoundCloud link prominently displayed:

Click it to listen, or listen right on the page by clicking the “play” button at the bottom right,

underneath the Hebrew biblical text.

The white button will turn the recording on and off; the blue button will slide to the part

where you want to listen. Don’t see those buttons at the bottom of your screen? Make sure the biblical text is visible

by clicking the “expand” button at upper right. (Yes, that’s בכ רבדמב , Numbers 22, sideways.)

Here is the dropdown menu for the Prophets …

Joshua

Shoftim [Judges]

Shmuel Aleph [1 Samuel]

Shmuel Bet [2 Samuel]

Melachim Aleph [1 Kings]

Melachim Bet [2 Kings]

Isaiah

Jeremiah

Ezekiel

Hosea

Joel

Amos

Obadiah

Jonah

Micah

Nahum

Habakkuk

Zephaniah

Haggai

Zechariah

Malachi

… and here’s the dropdown menu for the Writings:

Tehillim [Psalms]

Mishlei [Proverbs]

Job

Shir ha-Shirim [Song of Songs]

Ruth

Eichah [Lamentations]

Kohélet [Ecclesiastes]

Esther

Daniel

Ezra

Nehemiah

Divrei ha-Yamim Aleph [1 Chronicles]

Divrei ha-Yamim Bet [2 Chronicles]