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Ask the Rabbi: Tomato/tomahto?
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“For various reason of aesthetics and national interests, the famed Hebrew lexicographer Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and the 1913 Hebrew Language Council tended to side with the contemporary Sephardi pronunciation, ultimately resulting in the minimization of the number of consonant and vowel sounds in modern Hebrew. This change followed earlier Haskala reforms that attempted to create a new “high language” for theater and literature, even as they continued to speak in the local vernacular language. “ more@JPost.com
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