Why Do I Pronounce It ‘Laich Lecha’?

Hi, this is David Alamovski with our question and answer shorts. This question was uh submitted by the hiliga Rabbi Aon Friedler. Many times you quote from paras and you call it le with a under the lammed of le. Why do you pronounce it that way? There is a segle under the lammed and not a se. The answer is because I am sloppy and I have a comical Long Island accent. That's why I pronounce river with an a at the end instead of an e r because that's just the way I talk. I remember I was teaching gamarra and I said the gumar brings three sources and one of the guys laughs and says mushroom, onion and vegetable. I was like what? says it's sources, not sources. [laughter] So, it does remind me when I was diving for the um for my father and uh somebody left an anonymous uh note in my mailbox and said, "They say you know how to learn. So, I don't know why you don't know how to davenin." And he emphasized three things that I was doing in davening. One is inad he felt I was saying it with a instead of a comet and then um he again thought I was also doing a shva instead of a comet and the other one was something in in kadesh I have to tell the truth I am really shocked that anybody listened to my doveting that closely. I'm also shocked they only caught me on three things, you know, because I had made a lot of mistakes when I was diving. This was a different minion I had gone to but an earlier minion and the person said you know it says in the braos who established the three of us did the fathers meaning establish it or tikn or were they based on the kabanos so he says to me that's when your father dies you have to be yeah so um I will not uh promise you that I'm going to say correctly from here on in, but I do appreciate you putting it out. By the way, the correct way uh everybody who learns garra, at least in all my years of gamarra says me, the correct pronunciation is me. And uh if you you can pronounce it that way, but uh but most people just say me. Somebody once went to Rabosha Feinstein and complained that the yeshiva guys don't know any dick. They don't learn dicta looked at him and said, "You know, it's really dict." [laughter] Anyway, thank you for the shout out and for the for the observation and I appreciate you listening and I appreciate you listening that closely and uh and if that's the only mistake that you have caught, my gosh, I'm doing a lot better than I thought. And that's it. Till next time, thank you very much everybody. This is the Rabbi Olowski question and answer shorts.