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↑ dena613 ↓

Wed, Oct 06 2021, 8:37 pm

b.chadash wrote:

Based on which expression comes "straddling the fence"

Based on which expression comes "head and shoulders above the rest"

Based on which expression comes "scapegoat"

Poschim all shney/shtey(?) Haseifim(?)
Eliyahu behar hacarmel

↑ Blessing1 ↓

Wed, Oct 06 2021, 8:38 pm

b.chadash wrote:

Correct! though I think the word is Pischi not Pischu.

"Pischu" is in Pischiu li Shaarei tzedek avo vam, odeh kah...

It's the same word. Pischi is just chassidish pronunciation.

↑ b.chadash ↓

Wed, Oct 06 2021, 8:38 pm

dena613 wrote:

Tovim hashnayim.

Yes!

ahh. from Koheles.
We had to memorize this in high school: "Havel havalim, omar koheles, havel havolim, hakol hovel. "
Anyone else? Smile

↑ dena613 ↓

Wed, Oct 06 2021, 8:38 pm

Scapegoat is se'ir laazazel

↑ dena613 ↓

Wed, Oct 06 2021, 8:39 pm

Blessing1 wrote:

It's the same word. Pischi is just chassidish pronunciation.

No. It's written with a chirik

↑ b.chadash ↓

Wed, Oct 06 2021, 8:40 pm

Blessing1 wrote:

It's the same word. Pischi is just chassidish pronunciation.

I don't think so. One has a yud and one has a vav.

↑ dena613 ↓

Wed, Oct 06 2021, 8:40 pm

Head and shoulders... Rosho verubo? Lol.
No clue.

Is it. Passuk about shaul?

↑ b.chadash ↓

Wed, Oct 06 2021, 8:40 pm

dena613 wrote:

Scapegoat is se'ir laazazel

Correct!

↑ dena613 ↓

Wed, Oct 06 2021, 8:41 pm

Something like shichmo lemaalah? am I making this up? Confused

↑ b.chadash ↓

Wed, Oct 06 2021, 8:41 pm

dena613 wrote:

Poschim all shney/shtey(?) Haseifim(?)
Eliyahu behar hacarmel

Yes! Ad masai Atem poschim al shtei hase'ifim?? (some things just stick in your mind from high school...)

↑ dena613 ↓

Wed, Oct 06 2021, 8:42 pm

I'll give you a HAIR-RAISING hint! It's in shiras haazinu!
Did you memorize it in 8th grade? Wink

↑ Blessing1 ↓

Wed, Oct 06 2021, 8:43 pm

dena613 wrote:

No. It's written with a chirik

What's written with a chirik? I just checked up pischi in hallel, only the pay has a chirik.

↑ b.chadash ↓

Wed, Oct 06 2021, 8:43 pm

dena613 wrote:

Something like shichmo lemaalah? am I making this up? Confused

No, that's good. "Mishichmo v'maalah gavoha mikol ha'am"
Who was this?

↑ dena613 ↓

Wed, Oct 06 2021, 8:44 pm

A little birdie told me is a bit of a stretch, so I'll just say it

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↑ dena613 ↓

Wed, Oct 06 2021, 8:44 pm

b.chadash wrote:

No, that's good. "Mishichmo v'maalah gavoha mikol ha'am"
Who was this?

Shaul?

↑ Blessing1 ↓

Wed, Oct 06 2021, 8:45 pm

b.chadash wrote:

I don't think so. One has a yud and one has a vav.

You're right. Kol dodi dofek has a yud and hallel has a vav but they're both pronounced the same. (In chassidish havarah.)

↑ dena613 ↓

Wed, Oct 06 2021, 8:45 pm

Blessing1 wrote:

What's written with a chirik? I just checked up pischi in hallel, only the pay has a chirik.

Pischi li in Shir Hashirim is with a chririk, unlike pischu li (or as you might say, pischi) in tehillim (hallel)

↑ b.chadash ↓

Wed, Oct 06 2021, 8:46 pm

Blessing1 wrote:

What's written with a chirik? I just checked up pischi in hallel, only the pay has a chirik.

Pischu li shaarei tzedek is written with a vav at the end.
Pischi li achosi is written with a yud, and a chirik under the ches.

To you, they sound the same because a shuruk and chirik make the same sound. But it's two different words, and litvish hav'ara pronounces them differently.

ETa: I see we cross-posted about this.

Last edited by b.chadash on Wed, Oct 06 2021, 8:47 pm; edited 1 time in total

↑ b.chadash ↓

Wed, Oct 06 2021, 8:46 pm

dena613 wrote:

Shaul?

Yup!

↑ abmom ↓

Wed, Oct 06 2021, 8:49 pm

dena613 wrote:

Easy one:
What are the seven names of Yisro?

What are the names of each of the 12 stones on the choshen?

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