Hebrew is cute. Despite the obvious condescension, to my American ears Hebrew is biblical and holy and deep and meaningful, and sometimes in its modern formulation, just plain cute. I heard a story on the news today about how Jessica Meir, the American Jewish astronaut who returned from the space station a month or so ago. I think she was saying something about being isolated, given all the social isolation people are feeling due to the COVID pandemic (all in Hebrew, and I really only understood about 50% of it…) but when they mentioned her return to Earth, they said in Hebrew, היא חזרה לכדור הארץ – literally, “she returned to the land ball,” or “the ball of land.” Because, well… that’s just how you say “Earth” in Hebrew. The Land-Ball. See what I mean?
Great Comment & picture. We, in America, were also So Proud to hear that she is Jewish & participated safely.