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Always ask questions, Chassidim don’t say ein chadash otherwise they would still ride with horse and buggies and travel with ships. And they wouldn’t eat pizza and sushi…and they wouldn’t have multiple cookbooks with recipes of all kinds of delectible dishes using 21st century processed ingredients. Nope, Chassidim could use sugar without any issues when it became available, because they had/have no problem with new innovations as long as it’s ok according to halacha. They keep their distinctive Jewish dress and language as the Yisraelim did in mitzrayim. I was once at a (English speaking) Yishivishe school production that was set in the times of yetzius mitzrayim and spoke about the fact that Jews were rescued because of their Jewish names and malbish. I was surprised that they did not mention the third reason, loshen, that they spoke their own language was the third reason Hashem took the Jews out of Egypt. But thinking into it, since the students didn’t speak their own Yiddish language, they didn’t mention it. Chassidim can certainly say they speak their own Yiddish language. I’m not criticizing Yeshivishe or any other Jews speaking English or another secular language as their main language, I’m just staring a fact.
A newspaper named Der Emes would be spelled in Yiddish דער אמת