Imagine a language that spent nearly two millennia asleep. Not forgotten—just… paused. Whispered in prayer, never yelled in traffic. Then one day, it woke up. And started swiping on Tinder. Ordering coffee. Dropping slang.
This episode is about that language—Hebrew. But not the one locked in liturgy. We're talking about the Hebrew that got reinvented, repurposed, and remixed by dreamers, poets, immigrants, and one very determined man with a very serious mustache.
We’ll talk about:
How Eliezer Ben-Yehuda turned Hebrew from sacred script into a living, breathing mother tongue.
What Modern Hebrew sounds like—and how it got there.
The poet Bialik, who gave the language a soul.
And the messy, beautiful question of who Hebrew belongs to now.
If you’ve ever wondered how language can carry not just meaning, but identity, protest, memory—and yes, memes—this one’s for you.
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