Do not cut lose from your longings - for what are we without our longings?

Hebrew is deeply inspired by other languages.

I don't write novels about expeditions to the planet Mars because I haven't been there and I don't know anything about it.

But for 30 years, Orthodox leaders have tipped the balance between hawks and doves, and have been in a position to determine who forms a coalition and who runs the country.

Think about Elizabethan English, where the entire English language behaved pretty much like molten lava, like a volcano in mid-eruption. Modern Hebrew has some things in common with Elizabethan English. It is being reshaped and it's expanding very rapidly in various directions.

Do not cut lose from your longings - for what are we without our longings?

Universally, not only in Israel, people want to feel good about themselves. We all want to feel good to some extent.