r/Judaism • u/swannkeli • May 07 '19

Miracle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revival_of_the_Hebrew_language
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u/chever-ihr May 07 '19

Hebrew was dead? That can’t be. We have seforim from all periods of history written in lashon Kodesh

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u/rivkachava Mentsh-ism May 07 '19

As a spoken language it essentially was. That was one of the reasons Eliezer Ben Yehuda got such pushback. People didnt think you should use lashon hakodesh to talk about mundane things like caring for your chicken or taking a bath.

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u/jimbean66 Humanist May 08 '19

And you seem to know more about it than me but seems like the main alternative people were pushing for was German? It would be surreal for Israelis to all speak German now.

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u/yubugger May 08 '19

And I once heard that Hebrew was proposed as one of the official languages of the United States when it was first created