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amother
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Sun, Jan 10 2021, 12:40 pm
I would love to know your favorite Yiddish sayings that teach you a life lesson.
(And please include a translation for those who don’t speak Yiddish)
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Genius
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Sun, Jan 10 2021, 1:00 pm
Vus hakstee in chainik?
Why are you knocking in a teapot?
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Blessing1
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Sun, Jan 10 2021, 1:08 pm
אז מען מיינט, נער'ט מען זיך.
It basically means that there are people that think their opinion is the only one, they're so sure that they're right, and they can't listen to others opions and often end up staying a fool when proven wrong.
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Einikel
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Sun, Jan 10 2021, 1:10 pm
טראכט גוט וועט זיין גוט
If you think good thoughts good things will happen. I believe it’s attributed to one of the Lubavitcher Rebbes.
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Blessing1
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Sun, Jan 10 2021, 1:12 pm
Einikel wrote: | טראכט גוט וועט זיין גוט
If you think good thoughts good things will happen. I believe it’s attributed to one of the Lubavitcher Rebbes. |
Yes, the Tzemach Tzedek said this.
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zaq
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Sun, Jan 10 2021, 1:15 pm
Az men is raikh, is men shein un klug un ken fain zingen
When you're you're rich, you're pretty and clever and can sing well, too.
I don't know so much about life lessons, I just like the pithiness of the expressions.
Es hot geholfen vee a teit in bankes: It helped like cupping a corpse.
A khisoron di kallah is tzu shein: A defect, the bride is too pretty.
Vos men leigt arain, nemt men aroys: You get out what you put in.
A krankn fregt men, a gezuntn git men: a sick person you ask if he wants food; a healthy person you serve without asking if he wants
In beis harov, kent di meshoresteh paskenen shailes: in the rabbi's house, the Gentile housemaid knows how to answer questions on Jewish law
Az me muz, muz men: when you have to, you have to.
A nekhtiger tog: literally, a nightly day, iow 'ha! fat chance!no way!'
A mensh trakht, G-tt lakht: man proposes, G-d disposes (literally a man thinks, G-d laughs)
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Blessing1
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Sun, Jan 10 2021, 1:19 pm
זאג נישט פאר דעם באשעפער ווי גרויס דיינע פראבלעמען זענען, זאג פאר דיינע פראבלעמען ווי גרויס דער באשעפער איז
Don't tell hashem how big your problems are, tell your problems how big hashem is.
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HeartyAppetite
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Sun, Jan 10 2021, 1:24 pm
Hit dir vel ich dir hiten - watch over yourself and I will watch over you.
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Genius
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Sun, Jan 10 2021, 1:45 pm
A gashenkta ferd bakikt men nisht dee tzein.
Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth.
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silverlining3
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Sun, Jan 10 2021, 2:14 pm
Oib s'is do a villn is do a vage.
If there's a will there's a way
Voos m'tit for yenem tit men for zich alein.
What you do for others you really do for yourself
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leah233
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Sun, Jan 10 2021, 2:38 pm
Ah halb emes iz a gantze sheker
(A half truth is a whole lie)
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dankbar
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Sun, Jan 10 2021, 3:56 pm
Zaq,
Ah nechtige tug, means yesterday's day.
Just like yesterday's day passed already, and won't happen again, same thing when someone promises something & it's not happening & you believe it never will anymore
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weirdo
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Sun, Jan 10 2021, 4:11 pm
A mentsch tracht und G-t lacht
We make plans and we think we know what will happen but things turn out differently, G-d has things planned for us.
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amother
Indigo
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Sun, Jan 10 2021, 5:31 pm
Billig is tayer.
Cheap is expensive.
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clowny
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Sun, Jan 10 2021, 5:42 pm
Blessing1 wrote: | זאג נישט פאר דעם באשעפער ווי גרויס דיינע פראבלעמען זענען, זאג פאר דיינע פראבלעמען ווי גרויס דער באשעפער איז
Don't tell hashem how big your problems are, tell your problems how big hashem is. |
I love this one. And I love the song of it too.
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amother
Mistyrose
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Sun, Jan 10 2021, 6:16 pm
פאר א נער ווייזט מען א האלבע אַרבעט
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summer0808
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Sun, Jan 10 2021, 6:41 pm
A Foiler arbet dopelt
A lazy person works twice as much
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GLUE
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Sun, Jan 10 2021, 7:20 pm
I don't know how to say them in Yiddish
The whole world is not crazy
Don't wish for a new king
My grandmother used to tell us this one:
May all your teeth fall out except one so you will get a tooth ace
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trixx
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Sun, Jan 10 2021, 7:20 pm
Leo rostens books. All gold
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Sprinkles1
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Sun, Jan 10 2021, 7:23 pm
amother [ Mistyrose ] wrote: | פאר א נער ווייזט מען א האלבע אַרבעט |
...ווייזט מען נישט
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