[Avodah] RAMBAM on Songs and Using Hebrew

[Micha Berger]

On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 09:00:38AM -0700, Gershon Seif wrote:
: How would the Rambam explain how they communicated with one another
: in biblical times? Did they only speak Lashon HaKoesh for refined
: purposes? How did they conduct business? In some other language? I
: doubt it.

Well, the language of Avraham's homeland was Aramit. And there is such
a concept in Chazal that we always had Aramaic as a second language.
Perhaps this was one of the medrashim the Rambam didn't consider too
fantastical to take literally?

:-)BBii!
-Micha

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