Note the Hebrew.
Posted on 02/08/2005 10:53:29 AM PST by ZGuy
Note the Hebrew.
The Hebrew language doesn't feed a family, cure diseases, and free the enslaved...Employed people do.
Gesundheit.
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The author's point may well be valid, but I noticed that the laws that immediately followed the Ten Commandments in Exodus included laws about slaves.
Now they may well have been avant-garde laws giving slaves rights that they had never enjoyed up to that enlightened time, but they were still laws regarding slaves.
It is ironic that many of the great incubators of liberty have had slavery as a prominent feature. On the other hand, it sort of makes sense.
If we think of Greek society, where slaves made up an enormous percentage of the population, or 1700s Virginia, where the same situation held, we may speculate that is was easy for the elites to be in favor of democracy (or a Republic) when most of the lower classes could not participate at all.
I hate to say it, but if the slaves in ancient Greece and 1700s Virginia had been considered citizens who would need to have the right to vote in a democracy or a republic, the elites would never have considered Democracy a viable option. Heck, landless whites were commonly denied the right to vote.
Given today's climate, is Hebrew still required and spoken at Harvard and the other Ivy League universities?
I seem to recall reading once that Benjamin Franklin proposed making Hebrew the "official language" of the (new) United States of America.
I believe there was some talk about replacing English, inspired by anti-British attitudes, not practicality. I've heard Hebrew was mentioned, but I don't think there was any real support and I doubt Franklin was involved. German was voted on in Pa. and lost. BTW, we still don't have an official language.
I speak as an Orthodox Jew, but besides Hebrew being the language of freedom and liberty, more importantly, it is the language of the G-d of Israel; and if our mission on this earth is to become closer to G-d, then it is indeed important that we communicate with Him in His language.
Our American founding fathers seemed to have recognized that Hebrew would bring us closer to G-d, and consequently the ideals of freedom and liberty.And it is this presence of G-d in our culture ( despite the many on the Left who would prefer to see an areligious culture here), that I believe has brought His blessings of unprecented wealth, power, and goodness to this nation. Our nation is special, largely due to our invoking G-d's presence into our lives and culture, and may it continue to be so.
Excuse me, but I have read about a dozen biographies on General Washington and am not aware of ever seeing anything that showed him fluent in any language but English. Because his father died when he was but a lad of 10, he had to forego education in England and work with his mother. He never received advanced education.
Please post a reference to your statement or retract.
What does anyone know about George Wythe college? It looks outstanding but their web site is not quite as informative as I would like. Is it a Mormon school? How many students? What distance students - how do they do seminars?
I don't know about Washington, but the College of New Jersey (Princeton nowadays) grads among the founders (there were many who signed the DOI) would certainly have known Hebrew. A Princeton undergrad education would have been sufficient to enter the clergy. It wasn't until later that seminary became an addition to the basic education offered to people like James Madison, by his teacher John Witherspoon.
And John Witherspoon is one of my heros of the Revolution, so I'm tracking with you, dude.
Urim and Thummim.
Interesting how the plural endings are separated from the words. As if it implies other meanings. Not to mention, that yud - mem is an abbreviation for Jerusalem.
Hebrew is not the language of G_d.
To accept that would be to accept he cannot understand all languages just as well.
Hebrew is simply the language He chose for the Israelites and many Jews.
We can talk to G_od and know he understands us in any language known to man, He created them all after all.
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