Avram, we are talking about language. Yiddish, along with Germanic names, was used to declare Sepharadim not really Jewish. A few generations ago a relative on my Sephardic side married an Ashkenazi. Her parents sat shiva because being that he did not speak a word of Yiddish and an Italian-sounding name (really it is Arabic from the Moorish period, although there are Italian Jews) they did not believe that he was Jewish. Were they serving Hashem? What constitutes serving Hashem is very complex. If a person does not do the job for which he was put in the world, in that sense he is also not serving Hashem and may just have to come back and try again.
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