The Wonders Of The Hebrew Language

The Hebrew language just isn't a way that you can read

, write and speak Hebrew. It is all about a culture and a way of life. The Hebrew language has a dimension to it unlike any other language. If you don't know how to speak Hebrew, you should learn as Hebrew translation will only help you and get you so far in terms of understanding and appreciating it.

First of all each of the letters also has a mathematical element. The first letter is one, the second is two and so on and so forth until 10. Then it jumps in increments of 10 up to 100. The final two letters are 200 and 400. Because of this, each word also has a numerical value. The study of this is call Gematriya. If two different words have the same numerical value, this is a way of making a point.

Additionally each of the letters' names is a word. Thus you can infer additional things from the letters. There are no actual letters which are vowels. It is a combination of vowels that make up the vowel sounds and determine what the word means. The Five Books of Moses are written without the vowels. Thus the person who reads it may make mistakes.

The Hebrew language existed in ancient times but following the exile of the Jewish people, the language faded away. It wasn't spoken with Aramaic and Yiddish becoming more popular. At one time there was a danger that it could die out. In the late 19th century, a man called Eliezer Ben Yehuda made it his mission to revive the Hebrew language. He was helped with the publication of newspapers into Hebrew.

In the early 20th century, his efforts had progress and there were moves to make Hebrew the official language of Israel. There was some backlash to this and some people didn't want to speak Hebrew but ultimately sanity prevailed. They were ignored and the language was allowed to flourish.

It shows that you shouldn't listen to dissenters because they want nothing to do then defeat progress. They live in fear and it intimidates them. The legacy of Ben Yehuda is a great one. Not many people have a language as one but that is a living breathing organic one.

Ben Yehuda moved to Palestine as it was then known in 1881. He was the author of the first modern Hebrew dictionary. Still he invented around 2000 words that were never integrated into the language. Many just were superseded by others. He passed away in 1922 at the age of 64. He died from tuberculosis and his passing was mourned by tens of thousands.

Now the language continually evolves as more and more words become part of it. Maybe Ben Yehuda wouldn't even recognize the Hebrew of today if he was alive. Would his ear be able to decipher the accents. What about someone like Moses? What would he make of the Hebrew of today.

by: Sam Hass

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