joseph….same tired arguements and I will not enter into another long,fruitless dilaogue on this…
you write that the rambam writes that in the days of Ezra, there was a translator. mmmmmm….before the churban???? last time I looked, ezra lived in “Bovel” after the churban ( even if you attribute the novi malachi to him , it is still in “bovel’)
Clearly, in “bovel”, they spoke the local dialects (aramaic,persina and others)- as you can see from doniel.
You also quote the Chassam Sofer- ” in ancient times”. How ancient? middle ages? gemoro time? mishna time? second bayis?
No one denies that from “golus bovel” onwards, the jews started speaking aramaic and its many dialects for another thousand years. So what? does that make yiddish holy?Or hebrew a different language?
Your quote from the radak is neither here nor there. Of course, in his days hebrew was not a spoken language. But it is now. So what?
This is a sterile debate because the vast majority of Jews in Eretz Yisroel (including your beloved neturei karta) speaks hebrew on an everyday basis and will continue to do so. Yidish wil lbe used and it is a wonderful language but it does not make it holy.