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R' Reuven Chaim Klein discusses Lashon HaKodesh and its historical and linguistic significance.
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hi everyone welcome to another edition of the Swarm chatter podcast on this episode of the podcast I'm going to be joined once again by rabu Klein and we will be discussing his bookes history Holiness and Hebrew published by Mosaic apress uh R Klein also is the author of uh book God versus Gods which we've discussed on the podcast in the past as well as he writes article called what's in a word and it's it's end up your email which you can sign up I'm sure CL will mention that here or later how will mention that here or later how anyone interested can get a hold of that it's also published in various places but this episode of podcast will focus on the book ofes um especially it's and and more so thank you k for joining me oh thank you for having me so how did you become interested Ines and to research this and to write this book um this is this was your first book so this is the first thing you know I previously is the first thing you know I previously we did your second book but this is the first thing that you wrote an entire book on right okay so let's go back to when I was a B in the Mir and we're sitting there learning and the talks about there's something called sort of like slang words for making a NE and the gar says you know there's a term which is used for K the gar says like what where does this term k come from it's not something that's used
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- 18:29sort of a Proto a a a linguistic ancestor Toes that we have that included Aramaic…
- 24:36B the different sides that different R him take by the way the r who I…
- 30:46that far but you know would say certainly there's a in in other in other literature…
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