MDG – “I know he was a kofer, but that does not invalidate everything that he did.”
True, but everything he did is suspect. You seem to ignore my point that this guy who made Ivrit wanted Jews to speak this language in their homeland of Uganda. If this doesn’t sever all ties to Loshon Hakodesh, I don’t know what does!
And I don’t know how you equate the words that maybe came into Hebrew later than the Tanach with words that Ben-Yehuda made up.
Whenever words that came into the language even from other origins, these were Okayed by the Mishna, Gemmora, Rishonim, etc. to become part of LK. Some guy who in the last century made up words for his language Ivrit – no way do these words become part of Hebrew or Loshon Hakodesh.
“It seems to me that you want to harshly criticize, which is based on Sinat Chinam, and that is wrong. I’m just trying to dan l’chaf zechut.”
You seem to be ignorant of the Halacha. It is a Mitzva to hate Reshayim and the C.C. says it’s a Chiyuv to Dan Reshayim L’caf Chov! Ben-Yehuda falls into this category along with all his Zionist peers.