Thank you! It took me a minute to understand #5. Even in my 20's, I dated someone who said he was Jewish but not a practicing Jew. Now I know that he was not Jewish at all then! He was from somewhere in Europe. I've read that Hebrew wasn't used as a modern language until the settling of "Israel" and them trying to establish a national identity.
Thank you! It took me a minute to understand #5. Even in my 20's, I dated someone who said he was Jewish but not a practicing Jew. Now I know that he was not Jewish at all then! He was from somewhere in Europe. I've read that Hebrew wasn't used as a modern language until the settling of "Israel" and them trying to establish a national identity.
Hebrew was a dead language for more than 2000 years which is most of the time Judaism has existed, its creation/invention happening around 3000 years ago.
It was re-invented, although one could argue, invented in the late 19th century by a Russian, Eliezer Ben-Yehuda. There were many new words needed because times had changed in more than 2000 years and as Arabic was also a Semitic language, with the same roots, many Arabic words were used. Ben-Yehuda used grammatical systems from religious/ancient Hebrew to put the language together.
It is perhaps a sad irony that the Hebrew spoken in Zionist Israel, by a people who hate Arabs and consider them to be subhuman, is as much Arabic as it is Hebrew. The Zionists were pretty much atheists but they needed Jewish money and support for their plans to set up a State to dominate the Middle East. That is why it had to be in Palestine, it had to be called Israel and the language had to be Jewish.
The most common language for most Jews in the 19th century was Yiddish, basically German with a Jewish accent as it has been described. Today the most common language for Jews is English, followed by Hebrew and then Russian. Jews do not have a common language.
Ancient Hebrew survived as Latin survives, through prayers learned by rote. But there was enough Hebrew in the modern invention called Hebrew for Jews to claim it as their own.
It is an interesting irony that just as Israel was invented in 1947/48, so too was the language of the State which, according to orthodox Jews and real Judaism, should never have been created. There was no ancient State of Israel. There were no States until the 19th century, a concept only mooted in the 18th century. There was a tribal kingdom called Israel and one called Judah which wandered into Palestine from what is now Iraq, about 3000 years ago and set up camps among a number of other tribal kingdoms which were not Jewish.
All that Zionist Israel claims to be, is a recent historical invention and in Judaic terms, a complete fake. Indeed some orthodox would say a dangerous fake because a literal Israel runs counter to Judaic teaching.
I believe that Hebrew, a language only useful for Jewish liturgy but useless for communication on the world stage, was chosen to be the one language of Israel not only to establish a national identity but to isolate the population of the new colonial enterprise from the world at large, to make future generations (today’s Israelis) easy to propagandize and manipulate. They now believe ridiculous lies that no one on the outside believes, and have become easy targets for the fear campaign: “everyone hates you; you must be afraid of non-Jews. You must build walls and kill to defend them”. Witness our friend James here.
Thank you! It took me a minute to understand #5. Even in my 20's, I dated someone who said he was Jewish but not a practicing Jew. Now I know that he was not Jewish at all then! He was from somewhere in Europe. I've read that Hebrew wasn't used as a modern language until the settling of "Israel" and them trying to establish a national identity.
Hebrew was a dead language for more than 2000 years which is most of the time Judaism has existed, its creation/invention happening around 3000 years ago.
It was re-invented, although one could argue, invented in the late 19th century by a Russian, Eliezer Ben-Yehuda. There were many new words needed because times had changed in more than 2000 years and as Arabic was also a Semitic language, with the same roots, many Arabic words were used. Ben-Yehuda used grammatical systems from religious/ancient Hebrew to put the language together.
It is perhaps a sad irony that the Hebrew spoken in Zionist Israel, by a people who hate Arabs and consider them to be subhuman, is as much Arabic as it is Hebrew. The Zionists were pretty much atheists but they needed Jewish money and support for their plans to set up a State to dominate the Middle East. That is why it had to be in Palestine, it had to be called Israel and the language had to be Jewish.
The most common language for most Jews in the 19th century was Yiddish, basically German with a Jewish accent as it has been described. Today the most common language for Jews is English, followed by Hebrew and then Russian. Jews do not have a common language.
Ancient Hebrew survived as Latin survives, through prayers learned by rote. But there was enough Hebrew in the modern invention called Hebrew for Jews to claim it as their own.
It is an interesting irony that just as Israel was invented in 1947/48, so too was the language of the State which, according to orthodox Jews and real Judaism, should never have been created. There was no ancient State of Israel. There were no States until the 19th century, a concept only mooted in the 18th century. There was a tribal kingdom called Israel and one called Judah which wandered into Palestine from what is now Iraq, about 3000 years ago and set up camps among a number of other tribal kingdoms which were not Jewish.
All that Zionist Israel claims to be, is a recent historical invention and in Judaic terms, a complete fake. Indeed some orthodox would say a dangerous fake because a literal Israel runs counter to Judaic teaching.
I believe that Hebrew, a language only useful for Jewish liturgy but useless for communication on the world stage, was chosen to be the one language of Israel not only to establish a national identity but to isolate the population of the new colonial enterprise from the world at large, to make future generations (today’s Israelis) easy to propagandize and manipulate. They now believe ridiculous lies that no one on the outside believes, and have become easy targets for the fear campaign: “everyone hates you; you must be afraid of non-Jews. You must build walls and kill to defend them”. Witness our friend James here.