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Title: What are your favorite Hebrew expressions?
Post by: NoMosqueHere on January 17, 2013, 11:41:14 PM

Please spell them out phonetically and define them in English for the Hebrew illiterates, such as me.

Title: Re: What are your favorite Hebrew expressions?
Post by: Yerusha on January 18, 2013, 05:42:37 AM

One of Chaim's favorite words on his Hebrew clips: יהודון - Yehudon = "Jew-Boy" - a semi-affectionate, semi-disparaging epithet in Israel!

Title: Re: What are your favorite Hebrew expressions?
Post by: angryChineseKahanist on January 18, 2013, 09:36:13 AM

Oi Vey! Vot kind of qesion is dat?

Title: Re: What are your favorite Hebrew expressions?
Post by: Tag-MehirTzedek on January 19, 2013, 08:18:17 PM

Leh-LEAzazel. Means go to Azazel. Azazel is the place where the goat during the time of the beit hamikdash (during the time of Yom Kippur) would be taken and thrown off a rocky cliff. It is basically telling someone to go to Hell.

Title: Re: What are your favorite Hebrew expressions?
Post by: Lewinsky Stinks, Dr. Brennan Rocks on January 19, 2013, 09:43:32 PM

Chazirah.