The more the world changes, the more we find comfort in the things that never change.

This is Rabbi Daniel Appen on demand on the Blaze Radio Network.

Welcome to the Rabbi Daniel Appen Show, where I, your rabbi, reveal how the world really works. Thanks for being

part of the show. And thanks for giving me the opportunity to chat with you here on the Rabbi Daniel Lapin show every week.

And as you can probably tell, I greatly enjoy doing that.

And part of it is because I enjoy communicating.

And this is fundamental.

I mean, what makes us human beings and what distinguishes us from cats and cows and

camels and kangaroos is precisely that we possess language. And it's something built into us.

God created us in order to be able to connect and communicate and collaborate and cooperate

and cooperate and ultimately to create.

And languages at the heart of this.

This is why one of the most amazing things of having a baby is watching it develop language during the first year or two of its life.

And astonishingly, with all the complex rules of syntax and grammar and vocabulary,

somehow or another, children intuitively just link to language, intuitively being able to recognize the structure

of the language and to begin to talk it.

It's quite extraordinary.

This is part of the wonder of language.

And although I am not thinking of moving anywhere at all, and when I last

checked with Mrs. Lappin, neither is she, but I've sometimes joked about wanting to move to

China. Now, you know, I think that in China, we'd probably enjoy even fewer freedoms than we enjoy in the

United States where freedoms are being eroded on a daily basis, as I record these words

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