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Q&A Why is cholam sometimes pronounced like segol (Chabad, Yom Kippur)?

From my experience with Chabad, I strongly suspect what you heard is /ej/ as in "fate" or "way", perhaps pronounced quickly so it came out sounding like a segol. /ej/ is the traditional Russian and...

posted 4y ago by msh210‭  ·  edited 4y ago by msh210‭

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#6: Post edited by user avatar msh210‭ · 2020-09-30T05:02:02Z (about 4 years ago)
  • From my experience with Chabad, I strongly suspect what you heard is /ej/ as in "fate" or "way", perhaps pronounced quickly so it came out sounding like a _segol_.
  • /ej/ is the traditional Russian and Lithuanian pronunciation of a _cholam_. That pronunciation is not used by most who attend the formerly Lithuanian _y'shivos_ today, but you still hear some old-timers there use it, as well as many Chabad folks. ([The town of Lubavitch](//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyubavichi,_Rudnyansky_District,_Smolensk_Oblast) was in Russia.)
  • [Gil Student](https://www.torahmusings.com/2011/06/the-pronunciation-of-the-cholam-vowel/) has slightly more information on this.
  • It has nothing to do with Yom Kippur specifically. Since you say you heard the same speaker sometimes use a more recognizable _cholam_, I'm guessing he or she pronounced some as learned at home and some as learned in _y'shiva_, or something along those lines.
  • From my experience with Chabad, I strongly suspect what you heard is [/ej/](//en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet) as in "fate" or "way", perhaps pronounced quickly so it came out sounding like a _segol_.
  • /ej/ is the traditional Russian and Lithuanian pronunciation of a _cholam_. That pronunciation is not used by most who attend the formerly Lithuanian _y'shivos_ today, but you still hear some old-timers there use it, as well as many Chabad folks. ([The town of Lubavitch](//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyubavichi,_Rudnyansky_District,_Smolensk_Oblast) was in Russia.)
  • [Gil Student](https://www.torahmusings.com/2011/06/the-pronunciation-of-the-cholam-vowel/) has slightly more information on this.
  • It has nothing to do with Yom Kippur specifically. Since you say you heard the same speaker sometimes use a more recognizable _cholam_, I'm guessing he or she pronounced some as learned at home and some as learned in _y'shiva_, or something along those lines.
#5: Post edited by user avatar msh210‭ · 2020-09-30T04:54:18Z (about 4 years ago)
  • From my experience with Chabad, I strongly suspect what you heard is /ej/ as in "fate" or "way", perhaps pronounced quickly so it came out sounding like a _segol_. /ej/ is the traditional Russian and Lithuanian pronunciation of a _cholam_. That pronunciation is not used by most who attend the formerly Lithuanian _y'shivos_ today, but you still hear some old-timers there use it, as well as many Chabad folks. ([The town of Lubavitch](//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyubavichi,_Rudnyansky_District,_Smolensk_Oblast) was in Russia.)
  • [Gil Student](https://www.torahmusings.com/2011/06/the-pronunciation-of-the-cholam-vowel/) has slightly more information on this.
  • It has nothing to do with Yom Kippur specifically. Since you say you heard the same speaker sometimes use a more recognizable _cholam_, I'm guessing he or she pronounced some as learned at home and some as learned in _y'shiva_, or something along those lines.
  • From my experience with Chabad, I strongly suspect what you heard is /ej/ as in "fate" or "way", perhaps pronounced quickly so it came out sounding like a _segol_.
  • /ej/ is the traditional Russian and Lithuanian pronunciation of a _cholam_. That pronunciation is not used by most who attend the formerly Lithuanian _y'shivos_ today, but you still hear some old-timers there use it, as well as many Chabad folks. ([The town of Lubavitch](//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyubavichi,_Rudnyansky_District,_Smolensk_Oblast) was in Russia.)
  • [Gil Student](https://www.torahmusings.com/2011/06/the-pronunciation-of-the-cholam-vowel/) has slightly more information on this.
  • It has nothing to do with Yom Kippur specifically. Since you say you heard the same speaker sometimes use a more recognizable _cholam_, I'm guessing he or she pronounced some as learned at home and some as learned in _y'shiva_, or something along those lines.
#4: Post edited by user avatar msh210‭ · 2020-09-30T04:45:47Z (about 4 years ago)
  • From my experience with Chabad, I strongly suspect what you heard is /ej/ as in "fate" or "way", perhaps pronounced quickly so it came out sounding like a _segol_. /ej/ is the traditional Russian and Lithuanian pronunciation of a _cholam_. That pronunciation is not used by most who attend the formerly-Lithuanian _y'shivos_ today, but you still hear some old-timers there use it, as well as many Chabad folks. ([The town of Lubavitch](//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyubavichi,_Rudnyansky_District,_Smolensk_Oblast) was in Russia.)
  • [Gil Student](https://www.torahmusings.com/2011/06/the-pronunciation-of-the-cholam-vowel/) has slightly more information on this.
  • It has nothing to do with Yom Kippur specifically. Since you say you heard the same speaker sometimes use a more-recognizable _cholam_, I'm guessing he or she pronounced some as learned at home and some as learned in _y'shiva_, or something along those lines.
  • From my experience with Chabad, I strongly suspect what you heard is /ej/ as in "fate" or "way", perhaps pronounced quickly so it came out sounding like a _segol_. /ej/ is the traditional Russian and Lithuanian pronunciation of a _cholam_. That pronunciation is not used by most who attend the formerly Lithuanian _y'shivos_ today, but you still hear some old-timers there use it, as well as many Chabad folks. ([The town of Lubavitch](//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyubavichi,_Rudnyansky_District,_Smolensk_Oblast) was in Russia.)
  • [Gil Student](https://www.torahmusings.com/2011/06/the-pronunciation-of-the-cholam-vowel/) has slightly more information on this.
  • It has nothing to do with Yom Kippur specifically. Since you say you heard the same speaker sometimes use a more recognizable _cholam_, I'm guessing he or she pronounced some as learned at home and some as learned in _y'shiva_, or something along those lines.
#3: Post edited by user avatar msh210‭ · 2020-09-30T04:44:00Z (about 4 years ago)
  • From my experience with Chabad, I strongly suspect what you heard is /ej/ as in "fate" or "way", perhaps pronounced quickly so it came out sounding like a _segol_. /ej/ is the traditional Russian and Lithuanian pronunciation of a _cholam_. That pronunciation is not used by most who attend the formerly-Lithuanian _y'shivos_ today, but you still hear some old-timers there use it, as well as many Chabad folks. ([The town of Lubavitch](//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyubavichi,_Rudnyansky_District,_Smolensk_Oblast) was in Russia.) It has nothing to do with Yom Kippur specifically.
  • [Gil Student](https://www.torahmusings.com/2011/06/the-pronunciation-of-the-cholam-vowel/) has slightly more information on this.
  • From my experience with Chabad, I strongly suspect what you heard is /ej/ as in "fate" or "way", perhaps pronounced quickly so it came out sounding like a _segol_. /ej/ is the traditional Russian and Lithuanian pronunciation of a _cholam_. That pronunciation is not used by most who attend the formerly-Lithuanian _y'shivos_ today, but you still hear some old-timers there use it, as well as many Chabad folks. ([The town of Lubavitch](//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyubavichi,_Rudnyansky_District,_Smolensk_Oblast) was in Russia.)
  • [Gil Student](https://www.torahmusings.com/2011/06/the-pronunciation-of-the-cholam-vowel/) has slightly more information on this.
  • It has nothing to do with Yom Kippur specifically. Since you say you heard the same speaker sometimes use a more-recognizable _cholam_, I'm guessing he or she pronounced some as learned at home and some as learned in _y'shiva_, or something along those lines.
#2: Post edited by user avatar msh210‭ · 2020-09-30T04:09:57Z (about 4 years ago)
  • From my experience with Chabad, I strongly suspect what you heard is /ej/ as in "fate" or "way", perhaps pronounced quickly so it came out sounding like a _segol_. /ej/ is the traditional Russian and Lithuanian pronunciation of a _cholam_. That pronunciation is not used by most who attend the formerly-Lithuanian _y'shivos_ today, but you still hear some old-timers there use it, as well as many Chabad folks. ([The town of Lubavitch](//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyubavichi,_Rudnyansky_District,_Smolensk_Oblast) was in Russia.)
  • [Gil Student](https://www.torahmusings.com/2011/06/the-pronunciation-of-the-cholam-vowel/) has slightly more information on this.
  • From my experience with Chabad, I strongly suspect what you heard is /ej/ as in "fate" or "way", perhaps pronounced quickly so it came out sounding like a _segol_. /ej/ is the traditional Russian and Lithuanian pronunciation of a _cholam_. That pronunciation is not used by most who attend the formerly-Lithuanian _y'shivos_ today, but you still hear some old-timers there use it, as well as many Chabad folks. ([The town of Lubavitch](//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyubavichi,_Rudnyansky_District,_Smolensk_Oblast) was in Russia.) It has nothing to do with Yom Kippur specifically.
  • [Gil Student](https://www.torahmusings.com/2011/06/the-pronunciation-of-the-cholam-vowel/) has slightly more information on this.
#1: Initial revision by user avatar msh210‭ · 2020-09-30T04:09:11Z (about 4 years ago)
From my experience with Chabad, I strongly suspect what you heard is /ej/ as in "fate" or "way", perhaps pronounced quickly so it came out sounding like a _segol_. /ej/ is the traditional Russian and Lithuanian pronunciation of a _cholam_. That pronunciation is not used by most who attend the formerly-Lithuanian _y'shivos_ today, but you still hear some old-timers there use it, as well as many Chabad folks. ([The town of Lubavitch](//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyubavichi,_Rudnyansky_District,_Smolensk_Oblast) was in Russia.)

[Gil Student](https://www.torahmusings.com/2011/06/the-pronunciation-of-the-cholam-vowel/) has slightly more information on this.