The proper pronunciation for Hebrew is “t” not “s”, and it is the way the language was more likely spoken in the days of the Beis (or rather, Beit) Hamikdash. Does anyone really think that the Ashkenazic pronunciation, which is only a few hundred years old, if that, is more choshuv than the original spoken Ivrit? Regional dialects are just that – regional. Some people say “ee” for what has always been pronounced as “oo.” Yeshivish people say Toyrah, for Torah. Litvaks and Galitzianers also have different ways of pronouncing the same word. What’s the difference, as long as it is all directed towards Yiddishkeit?
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