[Mesorah] Shaarei Yashar or Shaarei Yosher?

[Nehemiah Klein via Mesorah]

It is only modern Israeli Hebrew that insists that yosher has a vav, it can
be pronounced yosher without a vav as well.

On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 3:43 PM, Zev Sero via Mesorah <
mesorah at lists.aishdas.org> wrote:

> On 08/24/2015 08:34 AM, Jeremy Rosenbaum Simon wrote:
>
>> 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?
>>
>
> Yashar means "a straight person".  The title could refer to the person
> using the gates, or (IMO far less likely) to the author.  But for the
> reasons I gave, I think it more likely that the author intended "yosher".
>
>
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