[Mesorah] Shaarei Yashar or Shaarei Yosher?

Yisrael Dubitsky via Mesorah mesorah at lists.aishdas.org
Mon Aug 24 13:02:14 PDT 2015


Just in terms of biblical evidence:
yosher (spelled of course without the vav) occurs 13-14 times, mostly in
Mishlei and Iyov. Instances such as imre yosher, orhot yosher, maaglei
yosher [all spelled haser] would imply a shaarei yosher would be a good fit.

On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 10:47 PM, Micha Berger via Mesorah <
mesorah at lists.aishdas.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 01:14:45PM -0400, Zev Sero via Mesorah wrote:
> : On 08/24/2015 09:54 AM, Jeremy Rosenbaum Simon wrote:
> : >Do we see yashar as s noun before modern Hebrew?
> :
> : Yes, we do.  "Sh'mor tam, ur'ei yashar".
>
> Which shows yashar as a variation on the same theme as tam.
>
> Tir'u baTov!
> -Micha
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