Reply To: We, Yidden: G-d’s Chosen People!!

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Avi K
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Avira, you are becoming sillier and sillier. First, you make a completely unsubstantiated statement that Modern Hebrew was “created” to destroy Torah. In fact, it makes learning Tanach, Mishna, and most of the Gemara much easier as there is minimal difference between Biblical Hebrew and Modern Hebrew. Now you talk about people who were abused in Hebrew. Nu, what about people who were abused in Yiddish?

Yiddish, BTW, has no pure character. It is mainly High German mixed in with Hebrew and local languages (thus, Hungarian Yiddish is not the same as Polish or Russian Yiddish). Those who are trying to revive it (and Ladino), are mainly non-Jews who have an academic interest in it (similarly, my college, CCNY, offered two semesters in Anglo-Saxon). The rest are secular Jews who are looking for some cultural identification with their pasts. I actually like songs like Mein Shtetele Belz and Cuando El Rey Nimrod, but I never felt a need to understand the words to enjoy a song. Sometimes, it’s better that way as a song might have a nice melody and nice-sounding words but an immodest theme. I just think that it is silly to describe ourselves with a word used by our enemies as a pejorative. I also very much resent a maggid shiur who insists on using it even though he knows that I don’t understand. He is basically pushing me out. I did, in fact, have one maggid shiur who asked me if I understand Yiddish. When I said that I do not he replied that Rambam did not speak Yiddish.