Learning Hebrew

Hi Lainchan, I have already studied Japanese for some time now, and I will like to pick up Biblical, and everyday Hebrew. Does anybody have any suggestions, for example resources about the Kabbalah, and other sacred texts, and modern video resources created in Hebrew. I think it's so cool what the Jewish people have done around the world, and I am very interested in their line of thinking, their culture, mystical/spiritual beliefs, and of course, language. They are so powerful. Recommendations of more contemporary Jewish literature done in the Hebrew language will also be appreciated. Also the pop-culture, pop music, and contemporary artistry of Jerusalem as well will be appreciated. I just don't know where to start.

idk about learning hebrew, but Justin Sledge has really good introductory videos on the Kabbalah (and pretty much everything else to do with western/abrahamic mysticism), and while his videos don't usually go too deep into the texts themselves, at the end of most videos he gives a short bibliography for serious students. I watch them mostly for entertainment but you could definitely use his videos as a starting off point for academic study of kabbalah. https://www.youtube.com/c/ESOTERICAchannel/videos

>>6867 Israeli Lain here. For contemporary jewish literature I can recommend Amos Oz. For popular music, I like Girafot's early albums. cheers

>>7015 I can get you an epub of one of his books if you want.

Not OP. Can any Lainon confirm you can guess old enough written Hebrew words rough meaning from the three character root word's characters alone? I had read somewhere on one site claiming most words have a three character root though some even older ones are two and from this root the characters if you look at what their proto Hebrew form was you can combine the ideas the pictographs represent into a more complex idea that makes up the root word. If true this is a pretty interesting way to somewhat read Hebrew with no knowledge of Hebrew words. I'm assuming why it's hard to find info on this because it must be a concept from a specific author.

>>7018 many hebrew words especially verbs have 3 letter roots. its a concept that exists in arabic aswell. the idea is that you remember the base 3 characters and how to manipulate them to make a word that conveys a certain time or certain person performing the action

>>7019 This. >>7018 Hebrew isn't a pictographic language at all nowdays.

>>7019 I see though not quite what I was asking. >>7020 Yes I know it's not anymore but supposedly the words old enough work that way? It's hard to explain. I doubt it's taught to people in Israel as part of learning Hebrew and is more an anthropological and theological study type thing if that helps clarify what I am talking about.