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To: Dominick

Hebrew is the national language of Israel. It's still spoken. Latin is a dead language. I'm not knocking the idea of a church service in Latin, I simply don't understand it.


275 posted on 06/21/2005 12:38:15 PM PDT by Melas (Lives in state of disbelief)
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To: Melas

Latin is still spoken as French, Italian, and Spanish. Israeli Hebrew is different from Synagogue Hebrew as I am told. In any case the official language of Vatican City is Latin.


277 posted on 06/21/2005 12:43:51 PM PDT by Dominick ("Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought." - JP II)
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To: Melas

Hebrew was "reconstructed" in the early Zionist period, before the establishment of the State of Israel, after being effectively "dead" for centuries. It's a fascinating story ... I wish I remembered where I read it.


284 posted on 06/21/2005 1:12:17 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("Children don't need counting, because whatever number you have, you never have enough.")
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To: Melas
Hebrew is the national language of Israel. It's still spoken.

Hebrew remained the language of worship and of study for Jews during the 2000 years in which it was not a spoken language in the required sense. In fact, I believe many very Orthodox Jews were against its revival as a spoken language. The so-called Jewish Enlightment of the 19th century foresaw a revival of the Jewish state but many did not want Hebrew to be its language (some thought it too barbaric, and preferred -- ironically enough -- German).

315 posted on 06/22/2005 12:34:38 AM PDT by maryz
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