Universal Hebrew

According to the course, after the Tower of Babel, when languages scattered, they all carried with them fragments of the original language. These Hebrew traces would still be found today in all the languages of the world, like linguistic fossils bearing witness to our common origin.

A discovery presented as revolutionary: the most fundamental words of humanity (family, habitat, food, body) would all bear the mark of their original Hebrew roots.

The mother: אם (Em). French “Maman,” English “Mom,” “Mama,” Spanish “Mamá,” German “Mama” ← אמא (Ima).

The father: אב (Av). French “Papa,” Italian “Papà,” Russian “Папа” (Papa), Japanese “パパ” (Papa) ← אבא (Abba).

The born child: בן (Ben). French “Né,” English “Born,” Italian “Bambino,” German “Geboren” ← בן (Ben).

The house: בית (Bayit). According to the course, the Hebrew word בית gave rise to the concept of “dwelling” in European languages: French “Habiter,” English “Habitat,” Spanish “Habitar,” Portuguese “Habitação” ← בית (Bayit).

The door: דלת (Delet). English “Door,” German “Tür,” Dutch “Deur,” Swedish “Dörr” ← דלת (Delet).

The waters: מים (Mayim). According to the course, the Hebrew root of the waters is found in all words related to the sea and the maritime: French “Mer,” “Marine,” Italian “Mare,” “Marino,” Spanish “Mar,” “Marino,” English “Marine,” “Maritime” ← מים (Mayim).

Sacred rivers: נהר (Nahar). The world's great rivers would often bear names derived from the root נהר: Nile, Niger, Rhône…

English “Hallelujah,” French “Alléluia,” German “Halleluja,” Russian “Аллилуйя” ← הללויה. “Hallelujah” = הללו (praise) + יה (divine Name).

According to the course, these correspondences would not be coincidences:

1. Universality: Hebrew traces are found in all linguistic families.

2. Fundamental concepts: the most basic words (family, habitat, water) are affected.

3. Phonetic coherence: the transformations follow logical linguistic rules.

4. Preserved meaning: the original meaning remains recognizable.

5. Scattered geography: no direct historical contact can explain these resemblances.

“And because of the influence of time and technology, things have changed… Rashi, in the Babylonian Talmud, translated an enormous number of Hebrew words into the Old French of his time. Old French has been forgotten to us, but Hebrew is known to us.” (Rav Ziegler zatsal)

According to the course, Hebrew is not one language among others: it is the matrix language whose memory all the others carry, like distant echoes of the original word of creation.