In the West, we have been educated on a strong Greek-thinking basis. In this way, the world is viewed and experienced through abstract thoughts and classified ideas.
A simple, fundamental way to define this is that Greek thinking is on a knowledge base – thoughts, reasoning, and theories.
Our western languages are based on sounds(words) to identify and name ‘things’, thereby giving them a label for recognition; in other words, noun-based language.
This is so different from Hebrew, which is a verb-based language,
using words to convey and describe actions rather than knowledge.
Very simply put, the distinction between Western thinking and Hebraic thinking arises from the difference between knowing and doing!
Each letter in Hebrew is a concept of something concrete, and every word in Hebrew comes from a ‘root’ of usually three letters, combining the concepts of those letters to convey the full meaning of the word!
(see the example in ‘Hebrew gems’ for the word ‘Father’)
This is difficult for us to grasp. We want in this section of our website to begin to look at this.
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