August 26, 2025
The Hebrew Language
For millennia, Hebrew was the liturgical language, just as Latin was for Catholics or Aramaic for the Chaldean Church.
As early as the 5th century B.C., they no longer spoke Hebrew but Aramaic (the language of Jesus). After the diaspora, they spoke the languages of all the peoples among whom they lived: from German (later Yiddish) to Ethiopian (Falasha). Only in modern times have they transformed this liturgical language into a modern, spoken one.
Other peoples, however, have maintained their ancestral language, such as the Greeks, Armenians, and Chinese.