Ubiq
And if there is a value to holding on to an old language simply because that’s how we conversed for say a thousand years, why did we stop Aramaic?
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May 29, 2019 2:56 pm at 2:56 pm#1735500REPLY
ubiquitinParticipant
Joseph
IS YIDDISH HOLY?
“Wasn’t the haskalah conducted in Yiddish? …Yiddish theater?”
Those aren’t Avoda zara. A practice taken up for Avoda zara like riasing hands during davening, korban on bama becomes assur that is why trees were stopped .
“why did we stop Aramaic?”
We didn’t stop it , it is still used for much of davening . with time it fell into disuse I don’t think there was an effort to stop it.
The above is your post
You were responding to my question as to why we stopped using Aramaic.
You wrote
“We didn’t stop it , it is still used for much of davening . with time it fell into disuse I don’t think there was an effort to stop it.”
Not sure why you would deny it
As to more gathering
The question is
Is Yiddish holy
Not is tefillah holy
Sure tefillah is holy but that proves nothing about the holiness of Yiddish
The discussion is about Yiddish in general
Same answer to your other question, sure nobody would change the language of a tefillah from a.k.h. but that doesn’t make Aramaic holy. Again it is the tefillah that is holy.
I didnt mention the Maharil Diskin, but because your asking no why would I think that?
True you didn’t mention him but I was “gathering “more information about your position.
Being as the story claims he wouldn’t talk, at least not to an important person, (and hashem is certainly as important) in the foul language of Hebrew, and being as you In your line of questioning seem to equate casual conversation with tefillah, it should follow that he would not talk to hashem using that foul language called Hebrew
(I don’t believe the story,
I believe all parts of tefillah are holy independently of which language they are in,
So I am not bothered by this question.)