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Taleisim, Shabbosim, Rebbeim. Why is this acceptable?
It’s Yiddish.
Because language naturally and rightfully evolves. Any language, that is.
“Why is this acceptable? ”
what is the problem? , do you have trouble understanding any of those words? do you think there was anyone ever who was ever genuinely confused ” Taleisim what on Earth are those? Oh Talisos”
(My favorite is Yated Neman, which should be Yased Nemanah See Devarim 23:14 וְיָתֵ֛ד תִּהְיֶ֥ה לְךָ֖ עַל־אֲזֵנֶ֑ךָ)
Ubiq,
Agreed – rather, it should be listed as “acceptable” grammar.
Not everything that is incorrect grammar is “unacceptable”.
There is grey area as well.. especially as it becomes integrated with English and other languages..Why is it a problem?
BTW, and what language are you objecting to (Yiddish, English) and which dialect (YIVO Yiddish, Queen’s English, Brooklynese).
It appears based on what one hears in America, that both Shabbos and Tallis are evolving masculine form plurals. Such happens in living languages, such as Yiddish and the developing “frum” dialect of English.
I suggest it is actually the initial period of a new Jewish language but that will take a while to settle down before scholars decide that Judeo-English is a language (in all fairness, many argued that Yiddish was just a type of German “jargon” until World War II when we decided we didn’t want to speak German anymore).
Shtusim.
Shtusim
Lol
You wanna keep Ashkenaz Havara?
No. I want to say “ameilus”. And “lomdus”. And “taleisim”. Etc. And it really doesn’t matter that you think they’re not real words. I’ll use them anyway.
Oh, by the way, “wanna” isn’t really a word.
People who speak Russian are actually speaking Spanish, but they are spelling and pronouncing every single word extremely incorrectly.
@YabiaOmer – if you’re going to rant against others’ grammar, make sure your own is correct. It’s not “tallisos” but “talliyos”.
It is difficult to change the vernacular, and as many said here, language is dynamic and ever-changing. Therefore, it is perfectly acceptable to say shabbosim and taleisim and shtusim.
That said, I suspect that even the “who cares” contingent here will correct the ba’al kore if he leins שבע שבתים תמימות תהיינה. So, sometimes it matters, and when it does, it matters alot.
One of the most amusing mistakes found in the mefarshim is on the first page of the standard Ritv”a Al Hashas found in every standard beis medrash and Jewish home of the learned. It says that the new edition has corrected all the טעותים from the older editions. I always laugh at that faux pas.
It’s an anglicized way of saying those things.
the plural of טלית is טליתות
When did “Asei” become “Essay”?
I always find it funny when people rant against the errors of others while remaining ignorant of their own deficiencies. In a famous story, a man came to Rav Moshe Feinstein to complain about the lack of knowledge of dikduk among yeshivaleit. In the way common among Americans, the man vocalized diduk with the stress mile’eil – DIK-duk. Rav Moshe gently corrected him, saying, “it’s actually dik-DUK.”
Ubiquitin: The name Yated Neeman was given by the Steipler zt”l, based on a posuk in Yeshaya 22:23
Talles is not feminine. It’s not originally a Hebrew word, and therefore does not need to follow Hebrew grammar, and does not need to be categorized as masculine or feminine. The nekuda on the lamed is not a chirik but a tzeireh or a segol, because in the original Greek that vowel is an epsilon; Ben Yehuda was the one who unilaterally changed it to a chirik.
BTW, Yabia, do you say tehillim or tehilloth?
midwesterner, If the title is based on that posuk then it’s certainly an error. In the posuk the feminine יתד is being put in a מקום נאמן; since מקום is masculine, the adjective is too.
Now here’s something really unacceptable. The official English name of BMG in Lakewood contains a blatant error: It should be Govoah, not Govoha. (It should also be Midrosh, not Medrash.)
midwesterner
thanks, though וּתְקַעְתִּ֥יו יָתֵ֖ד בְּמָק֣וֹם נֶאֱמָ֑ן וְהָיָ֛ה לְכִסֵּ֥א כָב֖וֹד לְבֵ֥ית אָבִֽיו׃, (courtesy of sefaria) in that passuk the “place” is neeman, not the “yated”
YO
“…These are NOT words. …You wanna keep …”
congrats you win the internet for today!It’s disturbing when people say “Dvar Toros” instead of the Divrei Torah.
Once again.
ציצת, ציציות
טלית, טליתות
That’s just the way it is. There are rules and there are exceptions to the rules.
Milhouse’s comment on the lack of gender to the word talit was very interesting and enlightening.
The Israeli אקדמיה ללשון grapples with these issues on a constant basisTrivia note: The Malbim’s peirush on Tanach includes a volume called “Tehillos” rather than “Tehillim”.
If your set of Malbim doesn’t, that may be a modern publisher’s modification. The set in my Shul has it the way I described.
BTW acceptable is a French word i think we should stop using that word!
Rational – the plural of tallis in Chazal is talliyos. You can find this in the Mishna in Zavim, as well as in a few places in Gemara. There is one instance of “tallisos” in some editions of the Gemara Shabbos, but the Munich ms. and accurateeditions have it as talliyos.
“Zechus” in Hebrew is feminine, and the plural is “Zechuyos”. “Zechusim”, like “Shabosim”, “Taleisim”, “Taneisim”, etc., is correct Yiddish.
Baruch ha-Shem that Yiddish, Hebrew and “Judeo-English” (yeshivish, Brooklynese) are LIVING language. If you want a language that is fixed in stone, consider Babylonian or Latin.
Why is “unacceptable” grammar accepted? It is accepted because if an Ashkenazi goes through the frum world talking about Shabbatot, talitot, etc., people will think that he is weird, or worse: that he is a Tzioni, ha ha.
One could write a book about all of the mangling of pronunciation and grammar (English as well as Hebrew) that are part of the normative frum dialect, but it would not change the way that people speak. As an example, take the expression “shala shudis”. Shala is not a word, nor is shudis, but everyone knows what shala shudis means, and hardly anyone thinks twice to say “shalos seudos”, or more precisely, “seudah shelishees.”
Perhaps there is some measure of pride and identity that come from not speaking in a fancy way; for example, to show that we are not like Maskilim who taught vocabulary and dikduk for the sake of their literature and theater, but neglected (or outright rejected) teaching Torah u’mitzvos.
Personally, I “am mispallel” to “be zocheh” to learn the intricacies of the Torah and Loshon Hakodesh. 🙂
In Tanach, there are words that operate as male or female. The most famous is דרך , as anyone who studied the beginning of masechet kiddushin knows. Others are ארץ, קצה, יתד,דוב , and many others.
There are essentially three dialects that we deal with, each with its own rules and quirks. One is Lashon Tanachi, second is Lashon Chachamim-Chazal (mishna, gemara, siddur and machzor) and the third is Vernacular-Modern Hebrew (עברית מדוברת). Of course there are subgroups and sub-sub groups.
In spoken Hebrew, the plural of טלית is טליתות. So declared the אקדמיה ללשון. Proofs from Chazal are not proofs, they are just לשון חז”ל. Notice that Chazal replaced the Tanachic ש (sin) with a ס ( samech). Why? It served their purposes. Right or wrong? Inappropriate and irrelevant question. They did it because they wanted to.
In any case, it is foolish to make fun or denigrate anyone who utilizes vernacular instead of sticking to the rules. The rules are not always operable, and different systems have different rules. I like rules, they help us understand each other. Breaking them may be annoying, but hardly a crime.
YO
“I don’t think there’s any excuse for soaking poorly like that”what was your excuse for this “You wanna keep Ashkenaz Havara” ?
“What does Shalos Seudos even mean? Three meals . But you’re trying to say Third Meal. Never understood that.”
Ask and you shall receive?
There is a classic vort I believe attributed to the Minchas Elazar, that by eating the third meal, you get schar for all three, hence “shalosh Seudos”. how so? Eating a Friday night mea, isnt necessarily done lekavod Shabbos, we eat supper every day. similarly the second meal, we eat lunch every day. However a third meal, especially on a short afternoon, THAT is unusual, most of u s dont sit down to wash have a meal 3 hours after lunch. by doing so we get credit for all three meals, as this shows out eating is (and was) lekavod Shabbos .Seriously though, the question is a bit silly. expressions dont always “make sense” my kid asks “why do you say take a bath, where do you take it?” Language often has quirks that arent “logical” per se
rational
do you have an example where יתד operates in the masculine?Rational: hence my point. If YO wants to pluralize as tallisos because that is the vernacular in spoken Hebrew, gezunterheit. But then he should not be outraged at those who pluralize talleisim because that is the vernacular in Yiddish.
YO: one reason we call it Shalosh Seudos is because there is a mitzvah to eat three meals on Shabbos. When eating the first two, however, there is no indication that we are doing it for the mitzvah, since it is normal to eat a meal at night and a meal in the morning. When we eat the third meal, however, which is usually much earlier than the evening meal is typically eaten (especially in the winter months),we are showing that even those first two meals were eaten not because of convention, but for the mitzvah. Therefore we refer to that third meal as Three Meals, because that is the “megaleh” on all three.
Ubiquitin: Here you go
“אִם יִקְחוּ מִמֶּנּוּ יָתֵד לִתְלוֹת עָלָיו כָּל כֶּלִי” (יחזקאל טו:ג
“תוקע יתד בארץ וסומך עליו את הקורה” (תוספתא בבא בתרא א, ג
rational
Thanks a ton!YO
sure!Or,
it is just a colloquial expression, that doesn’t technically make sense . Language is peppered with countless examples. ( Take a bath, redundancies like ATM machine PIN number)
take your pick of the above, whichever helps you sleep better
Though hopefully nobody greets you with a “Good/gut Yontiff” since I’ll bet that one will really make your head spin, and I dont even have a vertel to explain why “yom-tov” became yontiff (does anybody?)
and on top of that all if you are a literalist and translate Yom Tov/ Yontiff as “good day” then if you were to be wished “gut Yontiff” they would be saying “good good day”
oh boywishing you and your family a Great yontif (oops)
and as the the old joke (?) goes if you meet the pope, on Shavuos be sure to greet him with a hearty “good Yontiff pontif”
My meal late Saturday afternoon is shaleSHUdes, and my meal Sunday morning is “brekkfist.” Not break FAST. The guy who stood at the lectern leading the minyan is said to have davened farren UHmid, or in Brooklyn Yinglish, “davened fi’ the UHmid.”
To Milhouse: Regarding your post on another thread, to me, ‘hakkeh es shinov’ means knock his teeth out. I tune out when people tell me otherwise. I do my best to forget that this is incorrect, because ‘punch the villain in the mouth’ is a lot more fun than whatever the phrase really means.
The Kedusha of shabbos increases as the day progresses. בה, בו. בם. The Chasam Sofer explains that is why in the morning we make a kedusha rabba. There are three tefilos which the Tur explains is against three shabosos, shabbos of creatiion, shabbos of kabolas hatorah and all eternal shabbos. The afternoon is the holiest of the three having the sudah against all three.
There is also a Kabbalistic reason for calling it Sholosh Seudos. Friday night the Yidden are in a state of kabbalah — accepting the kedushah from Shabbos. It is for that reason we say “Viyanuchu bah” — loshon nikaivah, during Friday night maariv, because loshon nikaivah is used in Kabbalah to indicate reception.
Shabbos by day we are in bichinas mashpiah — the state of influencing, that is, we bring kedushah into the world. This is why we say during davening by day on Shabbos, “Viyanuchu bo” — loshon zachor, because loshon zachor is used in Kabbalah to indicate giving, emitting.
During the time of “Sholoh Shudos” (Sholosh Seudos), we are in a third state: that of both receiving and giving at the same time. Therefore we say “Viyanuchu bom,” loshon rabim during minchah on Shabbos.
Therefore, “Sholo Shudos” is a time where all three seudos Shabbos come together and act as one, which is why we call it Sholosh Seudos” instead of Seudat Shlishis.
“There are three tefilos which the Tur explains is against three shabosos,”
Ouch. K’neged does not mean “against”. Translating to imply the opposite of the intent makes the sentence incomprehensible. K’neged means parallel to or representative of. Not “against”. No offense.
Technically Taliyyos and Talisos are both considered acceptable and even correct. Taleisim is not, though you could argue that it is Yiddish. What bothers me more, is hearing talmidei chakhamim say, v’aHAVta or v’dibBARta in K’rias Sh’ma, considering I assume they would want to be yotzei l’khatt’chila, or saying, v’aKHALta in K’rias Sh’ma or bentching, both of which are d’Oraisa. BTW, it’s Divrei Sorah, Shom’rei Sorah, Machazikei Sorah and the like, after eheve”i — rafa, except if it were the first of a repeated letter, or occasionally two letters from the same motza, especially s’fasios, i.e., buma”f. In mikra, it works only after a m’shares, not a mafsik. You find it a little more often in Sifrei Eme”s, which allow two consecutive m’shar’sim in situations where Sifrei Khaf-Alef do not. That said, in transliteration, it is acceptable to leave the dagesh kal.
rationnal, in yiddish we translate as kegen which gets translated against. כנגד ארבע בנים דברה תורה it is true the Satmar Rav ztz’l translates that the Torah is against and does not agree with any of the children. אעשה לו עזר כנגדו translated I will make him a helper corresponding to him. The Midrash says זכה עזר לא זכה כנגדו. I translated it from yiddish.
Rational
I’m not sure what you are saying keneged does mean “against” see Rashi to “ezer kinegdo”Against has multiple definitions including facing which is the sense that it is meant here, though perhaps corresponding would be a better word choice
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