Reply To: Herzog’s column

What i find ridiculous, is that frum people have become so enamored with the presence of non frum jews that some think it’s still within the parameters of “jew”. Until a little over a hundred years ago, jew was synonymous with devotion to Hashem. Indeed the very name Yehudah means to thank Hashem…

Some think “well, if we didn’t have the Torah, we’d be like Israelis..” that’s because the zionists have succeeded in supplanting the definition of a jew with that of a nation-state.

Many old nations spoke Hebrew, it’s the language of the “other side” of the yarden. Lashon kodesh, says the ramban, is the way the Hebrew language is used. Many goyim were from Shem. Our Hebrew script that we use currently is called “ksav ashuris”, because it came from the Assyrians. Many current day aramaic speaking goyim can read fluent Hebrew.