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We're going to dig into the Hebrew language today on the Line of Fire.

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Thanks, friends, for joining us on thoroughly Jewish Thursday on the line of fire.

This is Michael Brown.

I will not be taking your calls today because I am with family at our granddaughter, Eliana's

graduation at Liberty University today. So proud of her, our oldest grandchild, and just doing

great university, maybe going on for master's as well. But I have solicited questions

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All right. So first, let me tell you how I got into Hebrew language study. You say, well,

that's obvious you're Jewish, right? But I was not a religious Jew. So I went to Hebrew school

for a few years, but it was superficial. It was after regular school, a couple days a week. A few of us would go. We'd finish school, walk over to the synagogue, do the classes, then walk home, maybe a half mile home. And that was it. So we learned a little Jewish history. We learned to speak very, very, very little Hebrew. And we learned to read the letters and pronounce

them, and you know, very, very small amount of vocabulary. And what happened was for my bar mitzvah,

I had to chant a portion of the Hebrew Bible. So there are certain accents that come in later in the textual

transmission history. So I had to learn to chant a certain portion of Hebrew, so the rabbi

would work with me on it and learn to chant it. I never even knew what I was reading.

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