Bom dia! Good morning! Boker tov!Shabbat Shalom to all 🖖✡️🎗Here is something different.Google translate that I use a lot in my life has a voice function.You can see your text translated in writing to whatever language you need and hear how words sound.I have several languages programmed into my phone.Yiddish is the only one that doesn’t have a voice function.One can see it written (as well as English transliteration) but not hear it spoken.As a member of a Yiddish speaking group I see a lot of posts where pronunciation is discussed, but apparently it varies so greatly or, and that is sad, spoken so little, that AI wasn’t able to compose the voice function.Jewish community is a tiny community compared to other ethnic or religious groups.The Jews of northern Europe and wast Russian empire, Ashkenazi Jews, spoke Yiddish, an offshoot of German language with words and pronunciations from various areas shaping the language.But the written form was always done with Hebrew letters.Google translate has no Ladino, the language spoken by Sephardic Jews, in it at all. Ladino was also written with Hebrew letters.For the longest time, long enough to develop two distinct languages and many area specific customs, foods...Jewish communities of Northern Europe/Russian empire and Southern Europe/northern Africa had little if any contact with each other.But both communities used the same alphabet and read the same texts for 2000 years. If you ever hear our ethnicity, our cohesion questioned, think of that.If you ever hear Jewish origins and right to be in Israel questioned, think of archeological discoveries in Israel that go back thousands of years with the writing in the same Hebrew letters.After years of being scattered around the world, persecuted and practically obliterated, Jewish people finally came home. People poin out that this area was called palestina.What about Judaea and Samaria that still exists and predates palestina?What about Jerusalem and other cities and towns that carry their Hebrew names from thousands of years ago?Israel is a home that was reclaimed and Jews have an absolute right to the land and a duty to protect themselves.Am Israel Chai!I have a friend on Facebook who often, usually in jest, uses “a girl can dream” comment.A meydl ken khlum in Yiddish (transliteration).A girl can dream.I dream that we will survive this terrible time and that Israel, the homeland that we have back, will withstand the international pressure, subdue the violent neighbors and withstand the onslaught of misinformation.I pray that our hostages will be brought home and that IDF soldiers will be safe and successful in defeating the enemy.I pray that the war will end soon and I dream that Israel and all the Jewish people will be safe wherever they are in the world. A meydl ken khlum, papercut Shabbat Shalom 🖖✡️🎗