TWO WEEKS YOU WILL BE ABLE TO READ HEBREW

A free PDF book if you sign up.

Impossible? Not a chance.

Back in the Covid-19 days, when everything slowed down and moved online, Stephen Ng started teaching very basic Hebrew—just two Saturdays, nothing fancy. And guess what? By the end of it, those students weren’t just along for the ride… they were actually reading Hebrew and became co-teachers!

In reading Hebrew, you just need to know the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet. If you could learn from A to Z (26 letters), what's 22 letters now to you? Practice is key. Once you start writing them repeated, you will remember the letters pretty well.

Next you learn the nikuds (the dots and dashes), which were created only about 9th centruary after the birth of Christ.

Using some mnemonics, you will be able to remember all these Nikuds --- e.a.s.i.l.y! After that, you will go home and say, "Hebrew is so sap-sap suey."

Well-done, if you want to learn Hebrew, join us : Date: JUNE 12 (Saturday) 2026

Time: 10.30am - 12 noon

Venue: Precious Pages Resources (PGO246163-M)

19b Codrington Avenue,

10350 Penang,

Malaysia

Tel : +604-2297678 (call only when you lost your way).

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Stephen Ng

Stephen Ng is a marketplace servant of God with a strong media background, having spent over 30 years in the industry as a part-time journalist and, more recently, as a media consultant. His writings have been featured in numerous print and online publications. A passionate evangelist at heart, Stephen is also the author of approximately 16 books. He holds a Master’s degree in Christian Ministry from a local seminary and is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in World Christian Studies.

Learning Very Basic Hebrew

A free PDF book if you sign up.

LEARNING VERY BASIC HEBREW LANGUAGE is a workshop designed to help Christians bridge the gap between their state of mind now (not knowing where to start) and their attempt to learn Biblical Hebrew at a local seminary.

Designed to whet the appetite of both seminary and non-seminary students, learning very Basic Hebrew will allow you to familiarise youself with the 22 alphabet, and the more difficult Nikud (dots and dashes) which can be quite confusing to people who only seek to memorise them.

Within two weeks, a number of Christians learning it online during the pandemic, are now able to read Hebrew on their own. This is because the workshop is designed in such a way that you can alost certainly remember the function of each nikud. Let me illustrate:

1. Think of the nikud as the vowels in Hebrew. In Hebrew, the 22 letters are all consonants. They did not have vowels. So if you want to write this sentence, "I like to play football," in Hebrew, you only use the consonants - " lke t ply ftbll." It may not make sense for us, but this is how ancient Hebrew was written, until the Nikud system was invented around 900 AD.

2. Nikuds are in the form of dots and dashes. This is what you will learn:

   (a) the a-vowel has at least a dash. If you see a nikud that has at least a dash, know that it is an a-vowel. Is that difficult to remember?

3. (b) the e-vowel is one with more than two dots. In English we say there are long e-vowels, short e-vowels, and silent e-vowels. For example, breathe. You don't pronounce the last e-vowel in the word; otherwise it will sound like "brea-there." Gosh, if you pronounce it that way, people know that you are not an English native speaker right away. Yet, this was how we learn to pronounce the word breathe, correct? In Hebrew, the nikud for a silent e-vowel is known by a special name. You will learn this.

4. (c) Now, you have only 3 more vowels to go: i, o, u. Does this sound familiar? Look at the dot on the English alphabet - the letter i. Where is the dot? It's on top, correct? In Hebrew, it's like a mirror image of the English alphabet. The dot for their i-vowel is at the bottom. Not difficult to remember, correct?

   (d) Now, imagine that you pick up a pingpong ball from the floor and you say "I". Then you toss it up in a hyperbolic trajection. As soon as the pingpong reaches the top you say 'O' (so high). Well, pat yourself, you have just learnt the Hebrew vowel, 'o.' If you see a dot on top of a Hebrew consonant, you know it's an O-vowel.

   
   

   (e) Your CG member then catches it and brings it to her waist. As he stands straight in front of you, where do you see the pingpoing now? It's somewhere near her waist, correct? That's U-vowel, for your information. If you see a dot in the middle of a Hebrew consonant, what vowel is that? U-vowel, of course!

   (f) Using I.O.U game, it's to make it easier for you to remember the nikud. No seminaries would teach you that way, but it's a sure way for you to remember each nikud that you won't forget that easily. After you have mastered all 22 consonants (the b, c, d, f, g, h, etc) in Hebrew, and the few Nikuds, then you are ready to put them together to read the Hebrew word. This reminds you how you once learnt Malay in school based on syllables or sukukata. You read "Su" su, "Ku" ku -- suku and then the teacher asks you, "How do you read Ka?" you reply: "It's Ka, teacher." And "ta" has to be "ta." The entire word is formed Su-ku-ka-ta. This is exactly how Hebrew works. You put the consonants together with the Nikud to help you form words that you can read aloug easily.

   Over 2 years when this course was taught online, many of the students eventually "graduated" and able to read Hebrew on their own within just two weeks! Some of them join Biblical Hebrew 101 and were recruited to teach Very Basic Hebrew. I also provide you a book which I wrote some years ago. Since it is out of print, for those who attend the classes, you can get the link to the book on PDF.

HAK PENGGUNA ADALAH HAK YANG DILINDUNGI: Gelang emas berlian Patah Dua Kali. Tribunal Tuntutan Pengguna Perlis Arahkan Habib Jewels Bayar Balik Penuh serta pampasan

Kenyataan Akhbar

PERLIS | 27 April 2026

Prof Dr Samihah Khalil

Seorang pengguna dari Perlis telah berjaya menuntut keadilan selepas mengalami kerosakan berulang terhadap sebuah gelang emas berlian yang dibelinya di salah sebuah cawangan Habib Jewels di ibukota Kuala Lumpur.

Profesor Dr. Samihah Khalil, yang juga mantan pensyarah, telah membeli gelang emas berlian tersebut untuk dipakai sempena sambutan Hari Raya. Pada peringkat awal, gelang berkenaan kelihatan cantik, berkilau dan diyakini berkualiti tinggi, selaras dengan reputasi jenama tersebut. Beliau menyatakan rasa sangat gembira dengan pembelian berkenaan.

Namun, selepas hanya beberapa kali dipakai, gelang emas berlian tersebut didapati patah. Gelang tersebut kemudiannya dihantar untuk dibaiki, dan Dr. Samihah terkejut apabila dikenakan caj pembaikan. Tidak lama selepas dibaiki dan digunakan semula, gelang yang sama patah buat kali kedua. Kejadian ini menjadi antara punca utama ketidakpuasan hati beliau, memandangkan masa dan usaha terpaksa dicurahkan untuk membawa gelang tersebut ke kedai bagi pembaikan kali kedua.

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Dua kali gelang emas berlian ini patah

“Sepatutnya gelang emas berlian yang dijual tidak mudah patah kerana ia diperbuat daripada emas, iaitu logam yang sepatutnya cukup kukuh,” ujar beliau.

Berikutan kali kedua beliau terpaksa membayar caj pembaikan, dan selepas cubaan berbincang dengan wakil Habib Jewels gagal mencapai penyelesaian yang memuaskan, Profesor Samihah akhirnya mengambil keputusan membawa perkara ini ke Tribunal Tuntutan Pengguna Malaysia (TTPM) di Kangar bagi menuntut bayaran balik dan pampasan.

“Dengan bantuan nasihat daripada seorang rakan saya seorang peguam di negeri Sabah, Dato’ Sri K. Rakhbir Singh, saya mengambil keputusan untuk memfailkan tuntutan tersebut di pejabat TTPM di Kangar,” kata beliau.

Selepas kes didengar, Tribunal Tuntutan Pengguna Perlis telah membuat keputusan seperti berikut:

• Habib Jewels diarahkan membuat bayaran balik penuh harga gelang emas berlian berkenaan;

• Bayaran penuh caj pembaikan hendaklah dikembalikan kepada pengguna; dan

• Pampasan kos perjalanan kepada pengguna turut diperintahkan.

Profesor Samihah menyatakan kepuasan terhadap keputusan tribunal tersebut kerana beliau berjaya memperoleh semula bayaran penuh, kos pembaikan serta pampasan yang sewajarnya.

“Saya ingin mengucapkan ribuan terima kasih kepada rakan saya, Dato’ Sri Rakhbir Singh, yang telah memberi nasihat sejak peringkat awal untuk memastikan borang tuntutan diisi dengan sepenuhnya untuk memudahkan Tribunal membuat keputusan,” ujar beliau.

“Saya juga merakamkan penghargaan kepada Kementerian Perdagangan Dalam Negeri dan Kos Sara Hidup (KPDN) kerana telah menyediakan kemudahan Tribunal Tuntutan Pengguna di negeri Perlis. Kos untuk memfailkan borang tuntutan hanyalah RM5 sahaja dan bayaran pos secara berdaftar kepada Syarikat penjual.

Demi kemudahan rakyat, saya juga menggalakkan pihak KPDN mempertimbangkan penyediaan khidmat penasihat, termasuk peguam atau pegawai terlatih, bagi membantu pengguna mengisi borang tuntutan dengan lebih mudah dan tepat, khususnya bagi golongan warga emas dan mereka yang kurang arif tentang prosedur perundangan.”

Gelang emas berlian patah kali kedua

Satu saluran tindakan yang wajar untuk menangani masalah tersebut

Sebagai seorang wanita, Profesor Dr. Samihah berkongsi pengalaman beliau bagi menggalakkan pengguna lain — khususnya golongan wanita dan warga emas — supaya berani tampil membuat tuntutan sekiranya berdepan dengan situasi yang menjejaskan hak mereka sebagai pengguna.

“Dalam kes saya, selepas saya menulis kepada pihak Habib Jewels, mereka masih enggan membayar pampasan walaupun saya telah pergi ke cawangan Habib Jewels di Kuala Lumpur untuk membolehkan gelang tersebut diperiksa oleh pakar mereka. Keperluan ini jelas melibatkan kos serta masa,” jelas beliau.

Menurut Profesor Dr. Samihah, dalam keadaan seperti ini kebanyakan pengguna sudah pun berputus asa. Namun begitu, beliau memilih untuk terus bertegas menuntut hak yang wajar.

“Gelang emas berlian yang saya beli diperbuat daripada emas tulen dan seharusnya tidak mudah patah. Penjual juga sepatutnya mengambil kembali gelang tersebut tanpa membebankan pengguna dengan pelbagai kerumitan serta perbelanjaan tambahan,” katanya.

Beliau turut memaklumkan bahawa atas nasihat peguam, Dato’ Sri K. Rakhbir Singh, beliau telah membuat tuntutan pampasan termasuk kos perjalanan sebanyak dua kali berulang alik ke cawangan Habib Jewels.

“Tuntutan ini juga diterima oleh pihak Tribunal kerana ianya munasabah,” kata beliau.

Profesor Dr. Samihah menegaskan bahawa pihak penjual perlu memahami bahawa barang kemas berbentuk emas dibeli untuk dipakai dengan selamat dan tahan lama, bukannya untuk dibaiki berulang kali.

“Daripada pengalaman saya ini, saya ingin menasihatkan para pengguna agar tidak berdiam diri apabila hak mereka terjejas. Undang‑undang perlindungan pengguna wujud, dan saluran seperti Tribunal Tuntutan Pengguna Malaysia (TTPM) telah disediakan untuk memastikan keadilan dapat ditegakkan,” katanya.

Dikeluarkan oleh:

Profesor Dr. Samihah Khalil

25 April 2026