In case you haven’t noticed, today is the day when we celebrate the Hebrew language.  How did I find out?  My 8-year old granddaughter learned about it in school and told me on facetime that she had learned about Haim Nachman Bialik today and his significance in the development of the language. 

So I made a point of listening to Avshalom Kor and his praise of the complexities of Hebrew.  My own difficulties with Hebrew stem exactly from that – that as the language of the bible that was revived only a century ago, each word drops you into a world thousands of years old.  I love that but it scares me – the depth of Hebrew…