[Mesorah] Shaarei Yashar or Shaarei Yosher?

[Mandel, Seth via Mesorah]

Which is the way it appears in the T'NaKh: 14 times, all haser (without a vav).
There is no way it could be Yashar, and only people who do not know Hebrew would pronounce it like that. Unfortunately, many graduates of day schools know more or less how to translate words, but have no knowledge of morphology or syntax.
Which is why I have heard many rabbis who have learned YD referring to "tzumas hagidim," rather than "tzomes." (True, the word is not in the T'NaKh, but the word is common by Chazal, including the phrase tzomes had'rakhim, and is punctuated that way in L'shon Chazal, and I heard many Rabbonim from Europe pronounce it that way).

Rabbi Seth Mandel
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On Aug 24, 2015, at 8:54 AM, "Nehemiah Klein via Mesorah" <mesorah at lists.aishdas.org<mailto:mesorah at lists.aishdas.org>> wrote:

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<mailto: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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