<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 15 May 2023 at 18:12, Micha Berger via Avodah <<a href="mailto:avodah@lists.aishdas.org">avodah@lists.aishdas.org</a>> wrote:</div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
Then I pointed out cases where there are halachic issues to be<br>
raised. Such as an Ashkenazi pronouncing Sheim Adnus in a way that in our<br>
ancestors' mouths would mean "my lords", with a patach-yud. I was not<br>
suggesting the answer to those question. (Which appears to be the way you<br>
understood me.) Just that it is, as I put it, "problematic".<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I have heard this concern mentioned many times, but I have never heard anyone complain that the patach-for-segol substitution of much of Polish Jewry would be just as problematic, for example in the first Beracha of the Amidah - Elokei Avraham being pronounced as Elokay Avraham. This would be an Ashkenazi pronouncing "the Lord of" in a way that in our ancestors' mouths would mean "Avraham, my Lord" c"v.</div><div><br></div><div>Sometimes halachic objections are found for political reasons...</div></div></div>