1. All the people saying modern hebrew is “nothing like lashon hakodesh” are just showing their ignorance and obviously don’t speak a word of modern hebrew.
2. Mishnah berurah forbids reading secular books on shabbos but makes an exception for “lashon hakodesh” because it helps a person learn torah better since it improves his understanding of the language (In O”CH 307). It takes 5 seconds of research to find out that this exception also applies to modern hebrew according to many poskim since it also helps learning torah (similar grammar, same roots) although there is some debate among modern poskim, and this only applies to people who aren’t fluent in modern hebrew.
3. Modern hebrew is quite literally based of lashon hakodesh the roots are the same, the grammar is the same, how is it possible to say it’s forbidden? because it was developed largely in part by secular people? Because it’s used by the “zionist state”? People in america can’t read a chumash without a translation, I find that far more troubling than learning modern hebrew and actually being able to read without studying for 10 years as a prerequisite or relying on translations that inherently differ from the original text out of neccesity.
