Revival of Hebrew

While Hebrew had remained the language of study and prayer, it had not been a spoken language for centuries. Few believed it could again become a tongue of everyday speech, but one man did, and dedicated his life to reviving Hebrew. His name was Eliezer Ben-Yehuda.
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[@rohanroynameless]

It can be role model for our sanskrit revival. 🕉️🧡✡️

[@hidof9598]

So many languages in India Doesn't seem possible

[@LEGENDDD2005]

​@@hidof9598 it is possible Sanskrit was language of us upper caste brahmins and Kshatriyas We make up around 25%(350 million) of Bharat🇮🇳 We will be happy to learn Sanskrit🧡

[@Atheist_Indian]

Even if we try to revive Sanskrit , it will only be accepted by current Hindi speakers , others will reject it and to revive it in the 6 Hindi heartland states , we will have to get the consent of local dialect speakers like Bhojpuris and Bundelis and if we succeed in doing that most probably only upper caste hindus will welcome this idea , Muslims and Dalits will most probably reject this idea

[@HayashiManabu]

Amazing, nothing is impossible with God's language

[@E3_GH05T]

It is said that there are already existing Hebrew speakers even before the time of Eliezer Ben Yehuda, and many of them are Yemenite Jews, Mizrahi , and sfaradim. Some of them migrated to Israel 1500-1600. Some say that even the Samaritans knew the language, but they do have their own Samaritan language. Yiddish is a combination of hebrew and German language.

[@kevincourtney7312]

Revival of Hebrew was part of Gods plan for the end of the age and the beginning of the Messianic Age where sin is ended.

[@user-re3zu1yj3z]

Hebrew's the most beautiful language. Period!

[@lm7338]

Yeah Sfardic or Yemenite pronunciation though

[@user-re3zu1yj3z]

@Mwaniki Mwaniki Yeah, Hebrew still wins...

[@user-jh9nx6tl1n]

@@user-re3zu1yj3z there is nothing called best language. How can you decide it is the best? It may be best for you.

[@user-re3zu1yj3z]

@@user-jh9nx6tl1n For me yeah

[@nishti_morad]

Please i want the translation in arabic coz I didn't understand most of the words

[@nomadnametab]

he did not set out for "palestine". the locals called it "south syria". the turks ruled the sundry people therein. and scattered jews worldwide could use hebrew to communicate with each other. they just hadn't modernized the language that much. used local vocabulary if they didn't have a purely hebrew word for it. but it shows that these dying languages worldwide could be revived , if the people would just try. the israeli method of teaching immigrants is being used by people worldwide, and he didn't just rebuild hebrew he showed the way for other nationalities and tribes to save their own languages.

[@ivanvidualmeza3539]

i have a question .... what makes the case of Hebrew language so successful?

[@Zionism101org]

+Ivan Meza Thanks for the question. It's success is due to it being a unique case in the world of a "dead" language -- that is one that ceased to be spoken (think Latin) -- being revived to again become a spoken language.

[@ivanvidualmeza3539]

+Zionism101org thanks a lot my friend! this information is very necessary :)

[@reginaDexant]

+Ivan Meza Because the LORD said that would be a sign of the approaching of His return "I will return to you a pure language" Zephaniah 3:9.

[@qerenyahu371]

It's linked to the people the land and it's God. He who once was, is and yet to come bares the same reference with his people and land they are one אחד

[@jlizamavera]

I think mostly because was kept alive, being spoken as a religion language, and after the second world war was one of the main way to unitfy people of all around the world.

[@Solomonpious]

1. Ben Yehuda = Son of Judah, not Judea! 2. HaZvi isn't "the deer".It also means magnificent and is a term for the Land of Israel. 3. You do understand that Yiddish speaking Jews didn't have Russian accents, right?

[@silverkitty2503]

Some of them who were from Russia also spoke Russian in their homes. So yeah some of them did.

[@bennycoyac8327]

Yehuda in Hebrew Judah in English Judea in Latin It's all the same word

[@ariebrons7976]

This contains a number of misconceptions. 1. Herzel was not the 'father' of modern 'Zionism' he was only a spokesman for the Zionist cause. Nowadays he is a mascot for Israel. 2.Before ben Yehuda Hebrew was spoken as a lingua Latina. This means that it was only used in holy or academic settings. Many exegetical books where translated into Hebrew. (exegesis being a fancy term for documents of religious significance, that do not include fundamental religious texts).

[@amarildo4771]

Professor, what is Eliezer’s relationship with the 70 Masorete rabbis?

[@moussaemad]

Emigrated to where?! Israel!!! Quite the history...

[@MondoVideos]

How did they know it in the 10th century then? The Masoretes knew a kind of Hebrew, how'd they learn this if it was a "dead language" before the late 1800's- early 1900's?

[@Taeil0151]

jon williams It was a language of prayer but a language that was virtually impossible to order things like a plane ticket until Ben came along…

[@E3_GH05T]

I wouldn't call it the revival of the Hebrew language. Modernization of the Hebrew language I think was the correct term.

[@johnathondubrule175]

I hate looking up stuff don't undersatnd

[@meltup3668]

It's incredible how an ancient language was revived, this is truly one of the amazing things the Jews have done. Although I hate Zionism, I still want to learn Hebrew, for peace between the Jews and Arabs Shalom! Salam!

[@user-dj6cd6hi9q]

So you hate jewish people that want to live in thier home land (hate Zionism) honey you are anti Semitic if you are anti Zionist then you anti Semitic you denying thier right to live in thier land and thier history with that land you also being anti Semitic because you don't give them thier rights and equality like everyone in this world .

[@MrLantean]

Israeli linguistic scholar Ghil'ad Zuckermann, arguably refers Modern Hebrew language as Israeli language instead. He refers its as a hybrid language that is genetically both Indo-European and Semitic. He believes that Modern Hebrew is strongly influenced by Yiddish as it is the mother tongue of the Ashkenazi Jews as most of the proponents of Hebrew revivals are Ashkenazi Jews. Many terms and loanwords of Yiddish origins had been incorporated into Modern Hebrew. According to Zuckermann, if the proponents of Hebrew revival are Arabic or Aramaic speaking Jews, Modern Hebrew would be a totally different language and is genetically and typologically Semitic.

[@janetrapaport8622]

God is who brought the Jews back to Zion/Israel. otherwise what they did was impossible. and it is impossible to love Hebrew and hate Zion at the same time. you mock God not the Jews. God brought them back to their land as HE promised. They are not perfect but HE IS. HE has chosen them NOT because they are good but to glorify HIMSELF. He will bless those who bless Israel and curse those who hate Israel. so check yourself. amen

[@GhstnThMchn]

This proves they had no connection to the land. Ashkenazis are Europeans totally masquerading as Isrealites.

[@NaomiOff]

I would bet you have no idea about what zionism means

[@ryanwebster3555]

שלום!

[@sleeexs]

𐤔𐤋𐤅𐤌

[@damonwereman9297]

'שלום

[@sleeexs]

𐤔𐤋𐤅𐤌

[@peternikitin2910]

Nice video. The fake Russian accent is annoying though.

[@gissie391]

Why it's so like Russian and German in sound also Scottish Loch ch sound. They were multilingual. Where did they get ancient Torah from and also not heard lading. Oh children just learning absorbing it I remember as child the exposure to more than one language. We do talk later. They must have spoken this language in moses time. So why say that? Why they not ask Lord.

[@gabygsdh]

If it.s of european origin ...It.s one of the greatest...

[@nitrodubs8381]

its not european its semitic idiot

[@observantori4893]

Real Hebrews speak Aramaic and Hebrew not "Yiddish" lol. That would make them european😂

[@6ctown6]

Exactly

[@dj3us]

What’s wrong about that? European Jews speak Yiddish!..

[@lm7338]

Language doesnt define your ethnicity. Yiddish is an adaptation to living in a foreign land.

[@ShayPatrickCormacTHEHUNTER]

@@lm7338 a voice of reason! The very existence of such a language proves the authenticity of the so called ahkenazi jews

[@hyperion3145]

dj___ European Jews speak many languages, Judeo-Spanish/Ladino was the most popular until very recently.

[@yooaab]

Modern Hebrew sounds like a European language!

[@TheEcrod]

+Jibran Khan due to the Resh sound, it sounds like French or German R. but the syntaxis is semetic.

[@arunima29]

+Yooaab Khan That's probably because of the Yiddish influence!

[@TheEcrod]

boundless Actually, Modern Hebrew dialect comes from Judeo-Sapnish, as the intonation falls on the last syllable of a word. The letter "Resh" (ר) which is the equivalent of the R in English sounds quite similar to the French or Northern German R. And the letter "Kha" (כ) and "Khe" (ח) sounds similar to CH as in Loch. This last sound is in German, Dutch, Spanish J and in the Arabic the closest language alive related to Hebrew today.

[@arunima29]

Carlos Doria Thanks for pointing out the similarities between Judaeo-Spanish (Ladino) and Modern Hebrew. But I am not sure if we can say that Modern Hebrew comes from Ladino. Modern Hebrew is a revived form of Classical Hebrew, which is a Semitic language (Afro-Asiatic). And as you mentioned that Arabic is the related Semitic language. But Ladino is a Romance language (Indo-European). If Modern Hebrew came from Ladino, we would not see the root-template morphology in Hebrew which is unique to Afro-Asiatic languages. Also, most Romance languages are fusional languages (except Persian and Armenian), whereas Modern Hebrew is agglutinative unlike the Indo-European. However, the SVO word order of Modern hebrew might have been influenced by Romance languages like Ladino or maybe even Yiddish (which is a Indo-European Germanic language). But then language contact is always a huge factor. In nutshell, I will be very skeptical to say that Modern Hebrew came from Judaeo-Spanish.

[@TheEcrod]

boundless Actually what I tried to say it's that Modern Hebrew pronunciation, I mean the way of speaking was taken from Ladino let me give you an example, when Elizer Ben-Yehuda, the man responsible for Hebrew revival, he was thinking about the best dialect for the Modern Hebrew been spoken, you know there are two important jewish languages; Judeo-Spanish and Judeo-German , the first one a Romance languages and the second one a Germanic language, in these communities both groups had or have different ways of pronouncing Hebrew in their texts or prayers, it was or is different the way they say words such as כָּשֵׁר (Kosher), in Judeo-Spanish communities it is pronounced Kasher but in Judeo-German communities it is Kosher; another word is שַׁבָּת (Shabbat) in Judeo-Spanish communities it is pronounced Shabbat but in Judeo-German communities it is Shabbes or Shabbos. Ben-Yehuda claimed that the Judeo-Spanish pronunciation was the closest to Ancient Hebrew, as many Sephardic communities share almost the same traditions of Mirahi communities, which speak a variaty of Arabic named Judeo-Arabic. Of course Modern Hebrew doesn't come from Ladino, but the current standard dialect spoken in Israel is quite similar, actually my native language is Spanish and I can understand Ladino 90 % as the another words come from Old Spanish, Turkish, Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Aramaic, Hebrew, Greek and Marrocan Arabic; I speak a little bit of Hebrew and of course that Modern Hebrew is nothing related to Old Spanish or Modern Spanish, but the intonation of words it is. Another curious info is that as Ancient Hebrew is a language spoken 4.000 years ago, it was really hard on creating new words for the moder world, as Ancient Hebrew does not have them, words like virus, television, radio, university, geography, etc, this words were taken from English, Yiddish, Ladino, French and Russian.

[@MrLallyandeliz]

Letter of Aristeas, Chapter 1:15-16 15. "'They need to be translated,' answered Demetrius, 'for in the country of the Jews they use a particular alphabet (just as the Egyptians, too, have a particular form of letters) and speak a particular dialect. 16. They are supposed to use the Syriac tongue, but this is not the case; their language is quite different.'" Modern Hebrew is not Hebrew. It's high time we woke up!

[@nishti_morad]

Hi Can you help me in translating this to Arabic

[@MrLallyandeliz]

@@nishti_morad The following is Google translation, so see if it is accurate: خطاب أرسطية ، الفصل 1: 15-16 15. "يجب أن يترجموا" ، أجاب ديمتريوس ، لأنهم في بلد اليهود يستخدمون أبجدية معينة (مثلما يكون لدى المصريين ، شكل معين من الحروف) ويتحدثون لهجة معينة. 16. من المفترض أن يستخدموا اللغة السريانية ، لكن هذا ليس هو الحال ؛ لغتهم مختلفة تماما. " العبرية الحديثة ليست العبرية. لقد حان الوقت استيقظنا!

[@nishti_morad]

Thanks But I need the translation of this video coz I want to collect some information about the Hebrew can you help in translating this?? Coz there is some words that I didn't understand

[@terraconensis2317]

I'm Intermediate in both Biblical and Modern Hebrew. Modern Hebrew is closer to Ancient Hebrew than most spoken languages, including the Romance and Hellenic languages. BTW the Letter of Aristeas is a Catholic fraud, to discredit the Hebrew Bible for the Septuagint. The Tanakh and Textus Receptus was written by the Holy Spirit. Catholicism, Orthodoxy and Islam are false religions.

[@savagescott7864]

WE THE REAL JEWS ✡

[@zeekmx1970]

It's not the revival of Hebrew, It's the revival of the Ivrit language. Praise be to the father in heaven for that. A language denied to the majority of gentiles in what's called America till around 2008. Hebrew is not a species it's the language of a woman named Heber. The Mortal King of Israel allowed her to speak her dialect of Ivrit and it came to be called Hebrew.

[@sleeexs]

woman? stfu

[@Ma1q444]

What’s the difference

[@Ruddyboyjoc]

But he wasn't restoring the true Hebrew language. For example the last word he worked on nephesh נפש is spelled wrong because they added their vowel pointings. In pure Hebrew נפש would be spelled as " Napash ". Pure Hebrew would use the natural vowels from paleo Hebrew. So His form of Hebrew is more of a Yiddish/ Hebrew he use the Hebrew alphabet but change the pure Language by adding their Nikkud. But what can you expect from a people who are not blood descendants of the true Hebrew Israelites. The Bantu peoples are the true Semitic peoples the Ashkenazi Jews took over the land through the Arab invasions after the true descendants of the Hebrew Israelites was forced out of the land in 70 AD into Africa

[@milotheblackboxer8915]

You shouldn't steal other peoples history just because you didn't make it past the stone age.

[@milotheblackboxer8915]

@Mwaniki Mwaniki sorry I didn't want to offend you I just don't like it when somebody steal other peoples identity because of his low self esteem

[@warrior5215]

What a bullcrap, black ppl aren't Semites, never were never will be, nor White ppl as well. Be proud to be African dude, stop with culture appropriation! That sucks

[@E3_GH05T]

Just for the info Nikkud already existed in the times of the second temple, it has the same features like most of Semitic language like Arabic and Aramaic.

[@Ruddyboyjoc]

@@E3_GH05T No the Nikkud was never added into ancient Hebrew. The ancient Hebrew alphabet consisted of consonants, now ancient Hebrew is said to be abjad "broken" because some vowels are written out and are known as consonant vowels, these consonant vowels have a dual function and can be read as consonants or vowels. such as these " א ה ו י ע " Now the Nikkud was added to Modern Hebrew when, Eliezer Ben Yehuda created it in 1881 so it was never a part of ancient Hebrew. And yes the Abjad was used in Arabic / Aramaic but in the Ancient Hebrew there was NOT an Nikkud of vowel pointings, there were only consonant vowels.

[@rhondalatney4724]

Hebrew language out of Europe is a lie. The truth language is out of Africa or Semitic (BLACK) not Europeans.

[@CandyKissama]

Amen, It's Bantu languages that are the Holy language of the Most High, These people are liars

[@Ma1q444]

@@CandyKissamahistory is written by the victors they deny the truth but soon the whole world will know.

[@Rus-bw2oq]

It was not a revival of Hebrew but an invention of Hebrew

[@TzvookT]

@Rus17 Well little KZbin-Terrorist ( who search the Tube after Israeli content in order to vilify, lie, spread false news and hate ) *Israel is the only nation on earth that inhabits the same land, bears the same name, speaks the same language, and worships the same God that it did 3,000 years ago* . Palestine, from the word Philistines, kin of the Greeks & Romans, was introduced in the Hebrew bible before the Arab race existed. Those so called "Palestinians" are Arabs from Arab peninsula, Egypt & Jordan & nomadic Arabs immigrants who settled on the ruins of the Jewish homeland in order to steal their lands as they do all over the world.

[@__Man__]

Failed revival, many real Hebrew sounds are lost in Modern Hebrew

[@Abilliph]

And many Greek sounds are lost in modern Greek... So what? Languages change over time. If the Jews wanted their language to remain as it was.. they would've just left it as a dead language. It's like saying an English speaker with a French accent, isn't speaking English.. it's silly.

[@__Man__]

@@Abilliph you can't compare it, Modern Greeks evolved from Ancient Greek naturally, while Hebrew is a REVIVED language, that's why I wrote REVIVAL. Before Israel, no one spoke Hebrew as the first language, it was basically a dead language, just like how Latin now, only used for ecclesiastical purposes. So, your argument is invalid

[@Abilliph]

@@__Man__ in that case, Hebrew is actually very close to its final form before it died.. not to mention it had many dialects with different pronunciations by that period. We cannot compare it to its form 3000 years ago, if it continued to change until 1700 years ago. I can say it's definitely closer to old Hebrew, than Greek is close to ancient Greek. It's similar to the difference between Shakespearean English and modern English. So Calling it a failed revival when it's that close, isn't accurate.. especially when it continued to change even in the diaspora as a second language. I would argue that ecclesiastical Latin is a continuation of Latin.. even if it was influenced by the mother tongues of its speakers.. if it was revived as it is today, it would still be the modern form of that ancient language. The changes slowed down in Hebrew when it lost it's native speakers, but it wasn't extinct.. there were always people who passed it to their children, and it continued to change.

[@__Man__]

@@Abilliph Semitic dialects didn't sound German. How come Eretz Israel sound become "Eghetz Yischghael"? 🤣. Hebrew sounds like that today because the group who revive it were mostly Yiddish speakers. Yiddish is a German-related language, so no wonder why Hebrew was revived that way. You are too much talking with words and theory when in reality it is just because they were mostly Yiddish speakers so they revived Hebrew in a Yiddish way, including its pronounciation

[@Abilliph]

@@__Man__ if we knew what happened, we wouldn't need words an theories.. but sadly we don't. Why did the the word Gamal in proto-Semitic became Jamal in Arabic?.. languages change.. and I didn't say Hebrew doesn't have German influence on its pronunciation.. Ashkenazi Hebrew was influenced by German, and Mizrahi Hebrew was influenced by Arabic. But a change in a few letters doesn't amount to a whole different language. Modern Hebrew was mainly influenced by the Sephardi pronunciation.. not the Ashkenazi. Ashkenazi influence on modern Hebrew is almost exclusively the R sound.. maybe... Because we do have evidence it was pronounced eghetz even 1300 years ago, in the Masoretic times. Not to mention Akkadian, a different Semitic language might have used that sound for their R too. So old Hebrew is perfectly understandable for a modern speaker.. even with a slightly different pronunciations, and foreign influences.

[@Ma1q444]

Hmmm why would they not continue speaking Hebrew why would they stop and make their first language Yiddish makes no sense they are not the true Jews: