Talk:Perushim

Asher Yatzer and Zionism?
"This movement coincidentally was very important to Zionism, however many of them were adamantly anti-Zionism on one side and anti-Hasiddut on the other, for example religious Jews believe Hebrew can not be spoken in the bathroom, (you say the thank you G-d for allowing you to go to the bathroom, blessing one step outside the bathroom, אשר יצר) which cancels out Zionism."

The above sentence from the opening section (last paragraph) doesn't seem to make any sense and I can't seem to find if something was deleted or the original editor just made a mistake somewhere in there. Thanks.  Coffeegirlyme  ( talk ) ·   10:39, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

Prushim and Perushim
The identification of "perushim" פרושים meaning 'separators' with perushim פרושים or פירושים meaning 'commentaries' is confused. These are two different words, pronounced differently in Yiddish, Ashkenazi Hebrew, and Israeli Hebrew. 'Separators' is pronounced [pruʃim] with no vowel between the p and the r, while 'commentaries' is [peruʃim]. It might be the case the they themselves made an association between the two words ("It was later applied to the Vilna group . . . "); if so, that would need a source. But the article itself should not assume that connection.--Linguistatlunch (talk) 18:54, 5 February 2019 (UTC)