Comments on: Shkoyach, Shaloshudos and Yuntiff- sound frummy but make no sense

By: Sergey Kadinsky

Sergey Kadinsky — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:25:50 +0000

i meant shabbat shalom, lest anyone think there was yet another greeting to remember.

By: Sergey Kadinsky

Sergey Kadinsky — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:22:02 +0000

The Bukharians in my community say “Shabbat Shalon,” and the Askenazim stick with a “good Shabbos.”

For fun, I apply the greetings to the opposite community.

By: Jelen

Jelen — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 07:38:31 +0000

1. as the official self-appointed yiddish scholar commenter, i’d like t inform you, mister heshy fried, that “yuntif” actually is a yiddish word. sure, it originated from “tom tov” but the yiddish names “yankev” and then “yankel” originated from “yaakov…” okay they’re derivatives, but languages evolve from one another and “yuntif” really is a word.

2. i thought i was the only one who knew about “pajamas” or as i like to pronounce it, “pijahmiss” just to be a shabbos goof sometimes.

By: heshman

heshman — Tue, 27 May 2008 11:46:00 +0000

Shkoyach kohen- so true- never thought of that one.

By: Ex-Yeshivish

Ex-Yeshivish — Tue, 27 May 2008 08:37:49 +0000

I’ve heard that the reason we say Shalosh Sudos, meaning 3 meals is because eating the third meal has the same merit as eating all 3 shabbos meals. I guess you’re so full after kugel and cholent that they have to up the ante for the third meal.

Another saying that weirds me out is after birkas cohanim when people just say “shkoyach kohen” like the guy doesn’t have a name and we still refer to people by their tribe affiliation.

By: Dovid

Dovid — Tue, 27 May 2008 02:19:57 +0000

What I was taught was to a say “A gutten erev Shabbos” to anyone you see on Friday between Mincha and Maariv unless you know for a fact that they have said Mincha. You have to know that they have said Mincha (as in having said it with them or having been told it by them) and not that it’s 100% likely that they have based on their usual practice. A lot of people wish each other “Gut Shabbos” after Shacharis on Fridays or if you run into them at lunchtime. The only way around this would be to either say, “Have a Gut Shabbos,” or “A gutten erev Shabbos.”

By: mikeinmidwood

mikeinmidwood — Fri, 16 May 2008 21:31:55 +0000

Too many people say good shabbos during the week (as a joke) but hardly do I ever get one on Shabbos.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 16 May 2008 08:52:44 +0000

what about moadim lsimcha for hol moade

By: Hiker

Hiker — Fri, 16 May 2008 05:26:54 +0000

Not me I would rather spend the holidays at a shliach then at my fam.