FrumJewishBooks.com
Pesach 2015
Reviews, Hebrew, History,
LASHON HAKODESH: HISTORY, HOLINESS & HEBREW BY RABBI REUVEN
CHAIM KLEIN
Lashon Hakodesh: History, Holiness &
Hebrew by Rabbi Reuven Chaim Klein is
one of the most exciting and intellectually
stimulating books I and the other reviewers
at Frumjewishbooks.com have read in a long
time. Everyone here insisted on have a
chance to read it.
in this ground-breaking work, blasts it open
with questions that leave the reader reeling
Why didn’t I ever ask that?
Here’s a sampler:
Not to be blunt, but you should, too.
We daven in Lashon Hakodesh every single
day – but how much do we know about it?
Rabbi Klein takes what seems like a
mundane topic – the Hebrew language – and
What language did Adam speak in
Gan Eden? Out of Gan Eden?
What language were people speaking
before the Tower of Babel?
At
Har Sinai?
Why was Avraham Avinu called an
Ivri? What was the original Hebrew
script?
Does Lashon Hakodesh borrow from
other languages or is it the other way
around?
Are Arabic and Aramaic separate
languages, or just corruptions of
Lashon Hakodesh? Does Aramaic
have kedusha?
For many of the questions, there are no
definite answers. In fact, it’s shocking just
how many different opinions and theories
there are.