Happy birthday to a visionary: Eliezer Ben-Yehuda. Very few people have the foresight not only to imagine something radical, but to create the momentum to make it real. Ben-Yehuda understood that Hebrew wasn’t just a language but the connective tissue of Jewish history. Reviving it as a spoken, everyday language meant turning continuity into lived reality. At a time when Jews spoke the languages of exile, Hebrew anchored Jewish life to its place of origin, rooting modern Jewish identity in an un