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Offline NoMosqueHere

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What are your favorite Hebrew expressions?
« 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.

Offline Yerusha

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Re: What are your favorite Hebrew expressions?
« Reply #1 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!
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Re: What are your favorite Hebrew expressions?
« Reply #2 on: January 18, 2013, 09:36:13 AM »
Oi Vey! Vot kind of qesion is dat?
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Re: What are your favorite Hebrew expressions?
« Reply #3 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.
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.   ד  עֹזְבֵי תוֹרָה, יְהַלְלוּ רָשָׁע;    וְשֹׁמְרֵי תוֹרָה, יִתְגָּרוּ בָם
4 They that forsake the law praise the wicked; but such as keep the law contend with them.

ה  אַנְשֵׁי-רָע, לֹא-יָבִינוּ מִשְׁפָּט;    וּמְבַקְשֵׁי יְהוָה, יָבִינוּ כֹל.   
5 Evil men understand not justice; but they that seek the LORD understand all things.

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Re: What are your favorite Hebrew expressions?
« Reply #4 on: January 19, 2013, 09:43:32 PM »
Chazirah.