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    Parashat Hashavuah

    Posted by Lev/Christopher on October 28, 2008 at 2:06am
    in Torah Studies


    Noach - נח : "Noah"
    Torah : Genesis 6:9-11:32
    Haftarah : Isaiah 54:1-55:5
    Gospel : Matthew 3-4

    One Language
    Thought for the Week
    Legend says that when God spoke the Torah at Mount Sinai, He spoke it in the seventy languages of mankind so that all humanity might hear and understand the summons. The Bible says that when He gave the Spirit at Pentecost, the Gospel was given utterance in all languages. Even today, the Word of God is still being translated into the languages of all humankind. Very soon there will be no spoken language on earth where the Gospel is not proclaimed

    Commentary

    Now the whole earth used the same language and the same words. (Genesis 11:1)
    At the tower of Babel, God descended to confuse the languages and disperse the peoples. The Torah uses two different words for language. Both "lip" and "tongue" are employed to indicate language. Thus, to say that a person "speaks in tongues" is to say "he speaks multiple languages." Genesis 11:1 literally says, "And it was that all the earth was one lip." Had our apostolic writers chosen this Hebrew term for language (lip) we would today wonder over the Acts 2 phenomenon of "speaking in lips."

    The sages believed that the original language (lip or tongue) of all mankind was Hebrew. Hebrew, after all, is the language with which God created the heavens and the earth. In Rabbinic literature, Hebrew is called the tongue of angels and the "Holy Tongue." Rabbinic idiom considers Hebrew as the "one tongue" as opposed to the "seventy tongues" of the nations of mankind.

    If I speak with the tongues of men [the seventy languages of the nations] and of angels [Hebrew], but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. (1 Corinthians 13:1)
    Of course there are more than seventy spoken languages, and linguists assure us that Hebrew is not the mother tongue of humanity, but is itself a descendent of an earlier Semitic original. Nevertheless, Hebrew is a holy language. It is the language of the Torah, the language of the Scriptures, the language of the prayers and the language of Israel.

    At Bible, the seventy nations were divided; the one tongue was split into many tongues. Yet as God beckons man to enter into His eternal and true Kingdom, the effects of the tower of Babel are being reversed. Hebrew is the only language in human history to have ever been resurrected from the dead. In the last century, Hebrew came back into common use after thousands of years of disuse. Other dead languages remain the exclusive domain of scholars and linguists. Hebrew alone has seen a miraculous rebirth. It is now the language of holy rabbis and Israeli taxi-cab drivers alike.

    The advent of the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth institutes a return to the single tongue of Hebrew. The prophet Zephaniah foretold that all mankind will return to the use of a single language, a "pure lip," thereby reversing the punishment of the tower of Babel. Hebrew is the language of the Kingdom.

    For then I will give to the peoples a pure lip, that all of them may call on the name of YHWH, to serve Him shoulder to shoulder. (Zephaniah 3:9)


    Many Messianics believe that Hebrew will be the restored language of the Millennium. I'm not sure. I think something like it will be restored. Even if we postulate that the Adamic tongue is what will be restored its early vocabulary would be insufficient to meet the demands of the 21st century. Hebrew itself has evolved considerably over the millennia and what we call modern Hebrew does differ in a lot of areas to the classical variety of the Tanakh. Moreover, even the Hebrew of the Tanakh has evolved and has different styles. For all we know, YHWH may even restore a completely new language. I think it is important to learn Hebrew if you can, or at least get some knowledge of classical Hebrew for scripture study, but I would not advocate exclusivity. All language today is corrupt. And modern Hebrew doesn't even get Yahweh's Name right since the W sound has evolved/changed into a V and in the ancient variety some consonants also doubled up as vowels.

    So just as I believe the King James Bible translators who said there was profit in using many different translations so I believe there is profit in using many languages and so avoid tunnel-vision. As far as the Bible is concerned we promote Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek versions and believe we have something to learn from all of them.

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