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Podcast: The Great Sources with Rabbi Shnayor Burton
Episode: S1, E45 Hebrew, Greek, and the 70 Languages
Description: Perception shapes language – how we think influences how we talk.
Accordingly, Chazal considered Hebrew and Greek antithetical; the "Holy Tongue" is a verb-centered language and reflects a dynamic world of Godly action, while the “Beauty of Yefes” is focused on the visual and reflects a static world of objects in space.
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