[Mesorah] Shaarei Yashar or Shaarei Yosher?

[Jeremy Rosenbaum Simon via Mesorah]

Unless yashar is a noun (which as far as I know it never is), it must be
Yosher. Shaarei is smichut, and needs to be followed by a noun, like
Yosher. Or am I
missing something?                Jeremy
On Aug 24, 2015, at 8:17 AM, Zev Sero via Mesorah <mesorah at lists.aishdas.org>
wrote:

On 08/24/2015 05:32 AM, Micha Berger via Mesorah wrote:

Which is it -- if Rav Shimon named his seifer grammatically correctly

(not a given) did he name it Shaarei Yosher or Shaarei Yashar?


It seems to me that the natural and obvious pronunciation of those
letters is "yashar", so the fact that the sefer is known as "yosher",
a far less obvious pronunciation, proves that it is the correct one.

Also, most titles of seforim in the form "shaarei X" describe what
the gates lead to, rather than the person who uses them.  It's more
likely that this title conforms to that model than that it doesn't.
(I dismiss the third possibility, that "yashar" refers to the author,
since that would be the opposite of humility.)

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