📚 ⁨@BizLaw Prof. Seth Oranburg's Video Book Review of Lashon HaKodesh Book#Hebrew #books #review

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Reuven Chaim Klein’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Greetings. I'm here to review this book by Rabbi Reuben Hayyim Klein, Leshon Hakodesh, host history, holiness in Hebrew. I'm Seth Oranberg. I'm a ordinary professor of law at the Catholic University of America and the director of their program on law and entrepreneurship and I really enjoyed Leshon Hakodesh. Leshon Hakodesh literally means the holy language and we can see some of the olive bet, the uh letters of the Hebrew language on the cover right here. And what's wonderful about this particular book from Rabbi Klein is he makes it accessible. I'm not a deep scholar. My Hebrew is I read slowly with my finger across the page. Uh certainly not fluent. There's a lot of deep meaning, a lot of richness here, um not just the thousands of years of history since receiving the Torah at Sinai, but all of the Talmudic commentary written often in Aramaic, um all the discussions and modern Hebrew. And he takes us all the way through the whole development from uh God speaking the world into existence to uh the uh creation of Adam Harishon, Adam the first man, who who spoke in Hebrew to God. You know, when God called and Adam answered, uh you know, where are you? Uh if you might remember that story, that was all happening in Hebrew, right? And And Hebrew is this language of powerful deep resonance. There's another story that Adam names the animals. Adam doesn't just name

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1. 0:00Greetings. I'm here to review this book by Rabbi Reuben Hayyim Klein, Leshon Hakodesh, host history,…
2. 0:30on the cover right here. And what's wonderful about this particular book from Rabbi Klein is…
3. 1:01modern Hebrew. And he takes us all the way through the whole development from uh God…
4. 1:31them. Like he doesn't just look at uh an animal and say, you know, that ant's…
5. 2:01But then God creates man, humans, human as co-creator again uses that holy language, names the…
6. 3:05useful headings, approach number one, approach number two, approach number three, approach number four, a paragraph…
7. 3:36are meaningful and rich. You know, if you if you follow some of this Jewish mysticism…
8. 4:07thing to spend time with a book like this, which is just giving you the gift…
9. 4:39are um, embedded throughout this book, which again is is uh, really quite readable. I will…
10. 5:09intermediate text where someone with my level, which is to say, you know, not terribly much…

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