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September 4, 2008 3:48 pm at 3:48 pm
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Jothar
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A “Harry” is someone, not necessarily a Baal Teshuva, who doesn’t fit the yeshiva bochur culture, defined by a white shirt, tzitzis out, black hat, yeshivish accent (“oy instead of “o”), and the ability to speak “yeshivish”, a jargon of English, Mishnaic Hebrew in an Ashkenazic accent, Babylonian Aramaic, and Yiddish. This a term popular especially in non-mussar yeshivas, where people are defined by outward appearances instead of their devotion to Hashem.