Yiddish is a perversion of German, a language that comes from tameim and achzarim. So how is it any better? “
It’s ironic, this was something that I actually typed in myself and then deleted, for fear of starting a controversy. Yiddish is primarily corrupted German, and considering what the Germans put us through, I find it hard to understand the attitude that some people have that it is Kadosh. English is the language most Jews speak and learn in, today. Neither do I find English to be Kadosh.
Charliehall makes a good point as well, regarding the Sephardic Jews. I can understand that a chassid who grew up with a Yiddish mindset, has a strong connection to it and kol hakavod, but more Jews in the world did NOT grow up with that mindset, so are they and their spoken languages of lesser value????
Secularly, we have beautiful poetry. Do most people speak that way in the course of their normal conversation? Our Avos had to speak SOMETHING, and I guarantee you 1,000% it was not Yiddish. The Rishonim lived a long time before there was Yiddish, which was probably created by the man on the street, ratehr than by learned people. When I hear about the belief that Rishonim sanctified Yiddish, it makes me think l’havdil, of present day Palestinians claiming ancient ownership of Eretz Yisroel, when there was no such thing as Palestinians until recent times. It is fine to make a point, but it should be based on real information, to MAKE the point.
And yes, there is a great deal of shmutz in Yiddish, as with any street language. There is also a great deal of Torah, as with English, Hebrew, and any other language in which Torah is learned.