Many of us realize that yiddish is not as widespread as it used to be. Should it be totally eliminated from litvishe yeshivos for that reason alone? Personally, I am not sure what the correct approach should be. As I once heard from the brother of a Rosh Yeshiva: “why are we so upset about losing a language that is 1000 years old and we are not upset that we can’t a speak a language that is over 5000 years old?
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