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Yes, Hebrew was a dead language for a very long time - from around 200AD until the end of the 19th century. Eliezer Ben-Yehuda founded the Academy for the Hebrew Language in 1890 and published the first volume of his Hebrew dictionary in 1908. Since Ben-Yehuda was Russian I believe he spoke...

I see that Eyal Noyman's book has exercises as well, that's very good. Once you understood the Hebrew grammar, the Hebrew Duolingo course becomes quite accessible. All you might need to get started on Duolingo then would be a dictionary to look up the new words :) (I personally use the...

You are right, starting with Hebrew on Duolingo from scratch would be a nightmare - mainly because there is no grammar taught, so you'd have to deduce all the grammar rules yourself by trial and error. Since there are no vowel markings I did in fact look up every new word in the dictionary to...

I've only learned Hebrew and not Yiddish, but I have read some Yiddish sentences on the Duolingo forum and it had me burst out laughing sometimes because it's so German. As you said, it's basically a German dialect written in Hebrew letters. Beste Geheimsprache ever ;)

A ground invasion of Iran isn't even on the table (neither the US nor Israel have any interest in that), nor has Israel ever requested any American soldiers on the ground, despite fighting a number of existential threats throughout its history. All Israel is asking for is the ability to restock...

Could you please elaborate on that? For someone who supposedly doesn't understand Israel, Trump did a lot of good things during his presidency that benefitted Israel. For someone who supposedly doesn't understand diplomacy, achieving something like the Abraham Accords - the first Israeli-Arab...

I am not aware of any map that says Tel Aviv is the capital of Israel. Every physical map, atlas and globe I have acknowledges Jerusalem as Israel's capital, as does google maps, as does the Wikipedia article about Israel. The capital of Israel is Jerusalem. Either way, Trump recognizing that is...

I'm not an American, so I am not interested in the US' internal fightings over Trump vs Biden, but when I look at the policies these two people pursued during their presidencies it is pretty clear to me who is better for Israel: Trump recognized Jerusalem as the united capital of the state of...

In this methodology there are 234 Baptist denominations, because they count every country as a separate denomination even when it's the exact same organisation with the same beliefs. Divide 40,000 by the number of countries (234) and we're only talking about 171 Christian denominations in total...

The vast majority of those "40k denominations" are extremely similar to each other, if you were to compile a list of denominations that significantly differ in teachings and beliefs you would hardly get past a few hundred. That's because of the methodology used to get to that number of "30,000"...

I do like Milka, but my favourite European brand is Lindt (their Lindor products in particular). Have you tried them?

The IDF knows that most (if not all) of the 240 hostages are inside the tunnel system. Entering the tunnels to locate and save them is a suicide commando, and blowing up all tunnel entrances without trying to rescue the hostages is a death sentence for all the Israelis and foreign nationals down...

What difference does it make? If men should be allowed to participate in women's sports they should also be allowed to win medals, and if men don't belong into women's sports then they shouldn't participate at all. Saying that men are allowed to take 4th place but not 3rd isn't in any way...

As someone who watches debates between all kinds of people it's very strange to attribute the views of the participants to the host of the debate, or even worse, a friend of the host of the debate. If a friend of mine hosts a debate between a Muslim and an atheist it would be weird to accuse me...

The form of the Hebrew letters certainly changed over time, but that doesn't mean it was a different language :) Here an example: This is how we used to write in Germany. Can you read that? You see, it looks weird, but this is still German. In the same way the Hebrew letters used to look...

Well, when it says that Jesus was "tempted in every way just as we are" in order to be able to "empathize with our weaknesses", then I take it for granted that Jesus felt sexual temptation but never gave in to it. Sexual temptation is one of human's greatest weakness, so this would be the one we...

To be honest, I don't believe we will ever get rid of temptation in this life. That's because we will be stuck with our (fallen) human nature until the day we receive a new, spiritual body on the last day (1 Cor 15:43), and it is precisely our weak human nature that is subjected to temptation...

A habitual sin isn't just a sin I happen to repeat more often than I'd like. A habitual sin is a sin that I kinda got used to, that I am so tired of fighting that I "suffer the sin" without much resistance. For example, let's say you have anger issues. If that was a habitual sin and you feel the...

I already quoted it in post #37 in case you don't have a Bible at hand. If you keep hiding behind formalities I will take it as a surrender of the discussion.

Exactly. I've yet to meet the person who thinks that an infant who dies will remain an infant in all eternity :)