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IAO 7 - On Excuses and Exhaustion

July 17, 2007 |

I have been very lax in posting updates to my Israel Appreciation Observation series due to the fact that I have just started working on a new project and it is taking a lot, if not all, of my free time. However, since right now I am waiting for feedback on some things and I am also tired of working for the moment, I thought I would post a brief IAO for today:

Hebrew Speaking Children

I have 3 nephews and 2 nieces. My wife has 4 nieces and 7 nephews. They range in age from 18 years to less than 8 months. The older ones have had years of Jewish education and indoctrination and have studied the Torah in Hebrew and learned the prayers.

My 4 year old daughter, Eliana, speaks fluent Hebrew and understands brachot and tefilot better than any of them. She knows what Hebrew month it is. She can recite prayers from memory that I still don’t know by heart. I am raising children who do not have to learn what language their ancestors spoke. They already speak it.

It is still amazing to me that after thousands of years and most of that in exile and scattered around the world, the milk tongue of the Jewish people is alive and well and will continue to live long after we are gone.

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