[1] In Tanach, Nehemiah (chapter 13, verses 23 to 24)
bemoaned the fact that after 70 years of exile,
many Jews of his generation had forgotten
how to speak Hebrew:
[2] Tosefta, tractate Chagigah, chapter 1, paragraph 3:
…[A Jewish child who is old enough] to know
how to speak, his father [must] teach him:
Shema, and Torah, and the Hebrew language
[Lashon HaKodesh].
And if he does not, [then] it would be better
if he never would have been born.
[3] Sifri, Parshat HaAzinu, near end of Piska 28:
Rabbi Meir taught: Whoever lives in the Land of Israel
and recites Shema morning and night and speaks Hebrew
[Lashon HaKodesh] he is worthy of Olam HaBa.
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