[Mesorah] Shaarei Yashar or Shaarei Yosher?

[Toby Katz via Mesorah]

Shaarei Yosher would mean Gates of Straightness or Gates of Uprightness
Shaarei Yashar would mean Gates  of Straight or Gates of Upright.

(RZS's suggestion that it could mean "Gates of the Straight One" is
grammatically possible but extremely unlikely.)

--Toby Katz
t613k at aol.com

--Toby
*--Toby Katz*

On Mon, 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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