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“Rav Harari didn’t speak at the Kinus since he speaks in Ivrit, and they wanted all the speeches to be in only Yiddish and English.”
Who are “they”?
And are you saying that if Rav Harari spoke English or Yiddish, that he would have been invited to address the Asifa?
And how do you know that he doesn’t?
I dont know if Rav Harari speaks english or not, I am sure he probably does though. However his shita is to speak at least in public in Hebrew a jewish language, just like there are those who say one must speak in yiddish because its a jewish language, he hold that hebrew is a jewish language.
Remember he is Syrian and yiddish is no more jewish to him than french.
Ive met a quite a few Charedi Sephardim lately and it seems they have adopted Hebrew as their “Jewish language”. I wonder what Rav Ovadiah Yosef speaks.
“They” is Satmar and related Chassidic groups who feel its wrong to speak english and even more wrong to speak Hebrew. As the Chassidic groups are larger than the Syrian groups and able to get more people to come, their position won out.
It is their Shita that its assur to speak Hebrew and its their position, who am I to argue, but its Rav Harari position that its proper to speak Hebrew