oomis said :
“I find it hard to think that our Avos or Moshe Rabbeinu conversationally spoke EXACTLY in the the way the Torah is written.”
Actually, Chazal tell us that the lashon of the Torah was unique. In other words, no person spoke that way as vernacular. I’m now at work; I will B”N find the source later.
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golfer said:
“I’m not sure E Ben Yehuda is the man for the job. In fact I think we have a pretty strong argument he’s not.”
While I agree with you, I think that the frum kind of dropped the ball on that one. Why are the chilonim the ones that are defining modern Hebrew starting with EBY?