Hebrew

God spoke to the Israel people in Hebrew.
 The ten Commandments were written in Hebrew.
   No better language for this.
    To say so much with so little words.
     Thus the Hebrew language became sacred and forbidden
      for the everyday use. Only for the Bible (best book written ).
        But the old Hebrews had Aramic and were never at a loss.
     But Hebrew was then planted so cleverly into Yiddish
  and so came back into circulation with the benevolent agreeing smile
   from above.
    Hardy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Miriam Taylor" <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
To: "Paul Heger" <pheger_at_gmail.com>
Cc: "HARDY BREIER" <HARDY3_at_bezeqint.net>; "RUTH GOLD"
<glasgold_at_bellsouth.net>; <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2010 6:48 AM
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Die Peschl

The reason I did not mention Hebrew as one of the languages which
contributed a lot of words to Yiddish, is because I think of Yiddish as
being in its origin (some say in the 10th or 11th century), as derived from
German and Hebrew equally.

That Yiddish words derived from Hebrew should be used for religious terms,
seems natural and expected, but that Hebrew words should be used for
concepts which have no religious connection, may be an indication of how
very familiar many Jews were with both Mishnaic and Biblical Hebrew.
Consider the words: "Baleh-Gooleh", from the Hebrew "Baal Agala"
(owner of a cart) which came to mean a rough uneducated person.
Or "malehghern" from the Hebrew "maaleh ghera" (chewing the cud), which came
to mean someone going over the same thing again and again.

Mimi

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