[Mesorah] Shaarei Yashar or Shaarei Yosher?

[Akiva Miller via Mesorah]

I thinks RZS is making a very strong point.

example: shaarei tzedek = gates of righteousness,  literally.

but that can mean either of 2 things. "gates which are righteous" is much
less likely than "gates which lead to righteousness"

akiva
On Aug 24, 2015 11:03 AM, "Zev Sero via Mesorah" <mesorah at lists.aishdas.org>
wrote:

> On 08/24/2015 10:38 AM, Ben K wrote:
>
>> Here too, it means "upright gates."
>>
>
> No, I don't think it does.  Titles of this form almost always mean
> "the gates that lead to X".  Here it means that if you pass through
> these  gates you will learn how to think straight.
>
> But I don't see how you can dismiss the possibility that it is indeed
> "Shaarei Yashar", either meaning the gates through which a straight
> person will pass, or the gates belonging to a straight person, i.e.
> the author.
>
> For what it's worth, I reviewed dozens of titles of this form on
> hebrewbooks.com, and found that in the overwhelming majority,
> something like 90%, X referred to what the gates lead to, while
> in all the rest X referred to the author.  I didn't find any in
> which X referred to the reader; but that's no reason why a person
> couldn't use it in that way.
>
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