For over sixteen centuries Hebrew was used almost exclusively as a liturgical language, and as the language in which most books had been written on Judaism, with a few speaking only Hebrew on the Sabbath.
Preko šesnaest stoljeća hebrejski se rabio gotovo isključivo kao liturgijski jezik i kao jezik kojim su pisane uglavno judaističkie knjige, dok se svakodnevno hebrejski govorilo samo na Sabat.