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Are that any well respected rabbis that assert that English is a holy language second only to Hebrew?
Rabbi Steven Robert Hoover III Jr., shlita
English is as holy as yiddish,german and hungarian.
takes2-2tango,
not true! english is actually worse than german and hungarian (on the same level as yiddish)
It is said that the malachei hashareis don’t understand aramaic because it isn’t a language in and of itself and only a corruption of lashon hakodesh
the same applies to yiddish (corruption of german) and english (borrows other languages
What difference does it make if English is Holy or not. However it is important that english is the most important language on earth at this time. You cant really make a Halacha one can or cannot speak a certain language (It might work in a small area, but not in a larger area).
No real Rav would Ban the speaking of English in the US
Every language can be “holy” if one doesn’t use “nivel peh”.
Coffee addict, Aramaic was the official language of the Assyrian Empire ( 911 to 605 B.C. ) and has 3100 years of written history. What is the basis of your assertion that it is a corruption of Hebrew? After Ezra returned from exile, he replaced the original Hebrew alphabet with the Aramaic block letters we now use. What’s interesting is that Samaritan sifrei Torah are still written using the original alphabet
I wasnt referring to the make up of the language, but rather the holiness of it. There is zero holiness in any language other then loshon hakodesh.
I wasnt referring to the make up of the language, but rather the holiness of it. There is zero holiness in any language other then loshon hakodesh.
According to many there is a holiness to Greek, It was considered a miracle that the Septugent was written in greek exactly the way it was, so there is something special to Greek
There is a level of kedusha in the (ancient) Greek language that exceeds all other languages other than Loshon Kodesh.
Are there any well known Rabbis that allow a gorilla to count for a minyan?
How about using cheese for Lechem Mishna , or count The Deathly Hallows as one of the Sifrei Kodesh?ZD,
I know someone who has a daughter who tutors disadvantaged kids in English. One kid asked why he should learn English. By he time he grows up everybody will be speaking Chinese. However, English does have many holes.
BTW, in Hungary goyish languages were banned in shul in response to the Neolog (Reform) who were “more Hungarian than the Hungarians”. However, Pressburgers did know German as they earned external diplomas in return for draft exemptions as theological students. The story goes that when Koppel Weiss became Chief Rabbi he endeared himself (and the Orthodox in general) to Franz Josef by speaking to him in German, thus relieving him of the obligation to break his teeth on Hungarian as per his compromise with the Hungarian rebels, whereas the Neolog leader addressed him in literary Hungarian.Avi K
Europe is a bad example because Language there is very political.
Chinese has the most native speakers in the World, but it is not a world Language, there are more people who can speak english as a second or 3rd Language than can speak any other language
English is the #1 language of trolls.
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