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“Modern Hebrew is not different than Turkish or Farsi”
This is false. People who speak modern hebrew often have an easier time learning Torah (especially if they start without a Torah education) because modern hebrew, although grammatically different, has mostly the same roots. Modern hebrew is closer to lashon hakodesh than any other language. Think of it as a gateway language LOL.
“The Chasam Sofer writes that the reason Jews do not speak Loshon Hakodesh as a speaking language is because it is inappropriate to use a holy language while enveloped in Tumah, which is our current status.“
If that is true, then Yiddish CANNOT be holy. Did you read what you copied before pasting it here?
“it is not possible to be a nation without a national language” – In reference to Eliezer Ben Yehuda, when I learnt the history of modern hebrew, (from what I recall anyway), what EBY was saying was that everyone coming into Israel was maintaining their language from their native country (French, German, Russian, Yiddish etc). It was divisive. People couldn’t converse properly, they couldn’t interact…there needed to be one language to unite the people. And truth be told, he was right. Why is it that when you go around the world, the common language people speak is hebrew? Its not universally yiddish or english or french or arabic…but hebrew.