Everyone has been too busy quibbling over the word “retarded” to correct popa’s most serious error. Poppa, you fail to understand that Yiddish (Judeo-German) is much, much, much holier than lehavdil Judeo-Arabic and that to insinuate that the Ben Ish Chai spoke anything other than Yiddish would be lashon harah and bizui talmidei chachamim.
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