Eliezer Ben-Yehuda: Difference between revisions
No edit summary |
|||
| Line 18: | Line 18: | ||
*As long as our people dwelling in the Holy Land speak foreign tongues—each man the language of the land from which he came: Spanish, Ashkenazic, Norse, Arabic, Greek, and so on—there is no hope that we shall here become one people, of one heart and one counsel. | *As long as our people dwelling in the Holy Land speak foreign tongues—each man the language of the land from which he came: Spanish, Ashkenazic, Norse, Arabic, Greek, and so on—there is no hope that we shall here become one people, of one heart and one counsel. | ||
*We are a rabble, we are the generation of Babel, who cannot understand one another’s speech; and thus our hearts have grown distant from each other. | *We are a rabble, we are the generation of Babel, who cannot understand one another’s speech; and thus our hearts have grown distant from each other. | ||
*Only when the day comes that we all speak one language — then we shall be one people | *Only when the day comes that we all speak one language — then we shall be one people. | ||
**In ''HaTzvi'', 10 February 1888, “[https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/?a=d&d=hzv18880210-01.2.2 The Chronicles of the Week]” | **In ''HaTzvi'', 10 February 1888, “[https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/?a=d&d=hzv18880210-01.2.2 The Chronicles of the Week]” | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
{{reflist}} | {{reflist}} | ||