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Tuna Beigel

chilledyid — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:10:03 CDT

A chassidishe Jew or a Jew from a chassidishe background who has, in a sense, gone off his derech. The only minhagim he retains are smoking, drinking beer, and singing certain chassidishe niggunim. They also hold weekly kiddush clubs.

Tuchis Lecker

VoiceOfReason — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:06:43 CDT

Tuchis Lecker - Brown Noser, Goodie two shoes, Kiss Ass

If you really need a translation of Tuchis you can look that up in the list but I'll assume it's universally known.

The Word leck in Yiddish and German is simply translated as lick in English. When you sit for a moment and contemplate the English translation of this phrase back in your head, you'll find that it's a bit more visual than the simple 'kiss ass' most Americas use. It's likely much closer to the visualization of what brown noser really means (and since it's even worse I'll simply leave it all at that).

This is one of the typical Yiddish phrases that gives yiddish its flavor. In common usage one might say, "Shimmy is such a Tuchis Lecker".

- Enjoy!

Gam Zu LeTova

shlongsteen — Sat, 24 May 2008 21:41:19 CDT

Gam Zu LeTova

Lit. - This too is for the good.

This expression is often used to make one feel better about events that seem bad, as if so say, in the grand scheme of things 'in retrospect this event will actually be for the good'.

You may also come across reference to a man who was called the Eish Gam Zu, who was known for using this phrase constantly. A man who accepted all twists and turns in life to simply be a part of Gods master plan.

Balebostah

shlongsteen — Sat, 24 May 2008 21:34:29 CDT

Balebostah (aka Bal-eh-boos-ta - Women who runs the house )
n. homemaker

Shtup

shlongsteen — Sat, 24 May 2008 21:27:38 CDT

.v The Yiddish translation for having sex. (Literal translation is to push - Shtup, Shtip)

"Yossi and Chaya have been married only 6 years and they already have 4 kids. They must be shtupping nonstop!"

Tuchis

shlongsteen — Sat, 24 May 2008 21:16:36 CDT

Tuchis (Tuchus, Tush, Tushie) - Rump, Butt, Ass.

This yiddish word is probably known to most people on this earth irregarless of the first language they speak.
There are countless movies and TV shows, books etc.. that use phases like "sit your tuchis down" or "what a pain in the tuchis he is".

Tuchis is often used in coloquial English because it's a bit more gentle than calling someone else an 'ass'.

Apikores

VoiceOfReason — Thu, 01 May 2008 23:09:53 CDT

n. Literally, "heretic". Anyone to the left of you, personally, in terms of demonstrable religious observance.

The plural form of this word is "apikorsim". Bloggers have been deemed apikorsim by the Agudah, as has anyone who dares to question the motives of the higher ups, the dudes with white beards.

"That Hershel is such an Apikores, I heard him telling Yanky that he thinks torah and science are compatible."

Rabbi Twerski

MFMFMF — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 01:03:03 CDT

Author of over 90 self-help Jewish books but unfortunately one is enough to get the same repetitive message which is using the 12-step alcoholics anonymous approach to improving your relationship with God. Some people really enjoy his wit and psychological approaches to Torah issues, but 35 books is pushing it.
A member of the famous Twerski family, descended from a Chassidic dynasty that combines the rabbinate with top secular education and outside involvement. Founder of a drug rehabilitation center.

Mesores Bais Yaakov

VoiceOfReason — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:48:29 CDT

Mesores Bais Yaakov is a wannabe Bais Yaakov for high school girls in Brooklyn. The girls there tend to be primarily from Flatbush, and are usually "japs." They tend to go to such seminaries as Afikei Torah and Darchei Bina after graduation, where they sneak off to go clubbing and hook up with boys every night until February, when they magically flip out. They are also known to enjoy wearing hooker boots and too much makeup, and unlike the Shulamis girls, rarely go past first or second base with a guy. When they come back from Israel, Mesores girls pretend to have never done any of the crap they pulled in Israel, and start shidduch dating until they find the perfect rich shmuck who will marry them, and the Mesores girl then turns into the Hot Chani or the Kwilf. And such is the circle of life.

Daf Hayomi

HeadBangerX — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:59:13 CDT

A popular study session of the Talmud where they learn a Daf (double-sided page) daily. The cycle is 7 and a half years to complete the Shas this way. This type of learning leaves very little room for laziness and retainment of what you learned. Target of jokes by many Yeshiva boys who claim that there's Daf Hayomi and then there's learning Torah; implying that this was made for working people who can't do better.

Michlelet Esther

iCEhORSE — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 19:50:12 CDT

A seminary located in the Neveh (girls) campus in Jerusalem's Har Nof neighborhood, also known as "molester Esther," for its easy going girls.

"I met this Michlelet Esther girl at Zollis"

Hot Chanie

ljakw — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:58:43 CDT

n. "Hot Chanie"s are married women who supposedly adhere to the laws of modesty by dressing in wigs and skirts, but usually the skirts are tight and short and the wigs are sexy. Hot Chanies reside mostly in Flatbush and Lawrence and are slowly trickling into Baltimore.

"Hey Dovi, if you're not busy this erev shabbos, me and the boys will be hanging out on Avenue J checking out all the Hot Chanie's, and you're welcome to come with."

Bein Hazmanim

VoiceOfReason — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 19:54:39 CDT

The Yeshiva version of "Cancun spring break." Before the break begins there is usually a series of speeches warning about the outside dangers of the secular world as well as calendars handed out to make sure the boys mark down how much they learned each day with checklists for each prayer of the day with a congregation. Once that dismissal bell rings however, the students usually end up at movies, pizza stores, bowling alleys, and ice skating rinks. But they carefully make sure they are wearing a hoodie in case the principal happens to be snooping around.

Pruzbul

HeadBangerX — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 21:47:23 CDT

A document one must make between him and his friend before the 7th year (called the Shemita year) when all loans are terminated automatically; relieving the borrower from having to pay back. The document preserves the loan saying the person still has to pay it back anyway. The good old fashioned way of doing this is through a simple ass-kicking if the person tries to pull Shemita on you as an excuse.

David Draiman

VoiceOfReason — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:04:13 CDT

Lead singer of rock metal group Disturbed who attended several yeshivas, including the Yeshiva High School at the Wisconsin Institute for Torah Study in Milwaukee (WITS), the Skokie Yeshiva High School in Chicago, Valley Torah High School in LA, as well as spending a year at the Neveh Zion yeshiva in Telshe Stone in the early '90s. Draiman has become an icon for yeshiva rebels everywhere, because they feel he is one of them for having bounced from yeshiva to yeshiva before leaving the derech and becoming a metal god. Almost every yeshiva rebel therefore goes through a stint of listening to Disturbed CD's nonstop, in some sort of weird message of solidarity with Draiman's heavy-metal-fueled screams of rage at the yeshiva system.

He was recently added to the Hit Parader "Heavy Metal's All-Time Top 100 Vocalists" in 2006 at #42.

Pictures of him with his former skullcap can be found on Onlysimchas.com if you type in Draiman. These pictures are actually not that old and he was already involved with the band.

Chup

VoiceOfReason — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 22:27:06 CDT

The yeshivish word for having hair in the front of your head. Chas Veshalom it should have any style of some sort.
pronounced Tshup.
Importantly, there is a sign outside the Monsey Vizhnitz mikva prohibiting anyone with a Chup from using the Mikva.

"I'm telling you, that Yossie has turned into a real bum; last I heard, he started wearing blue shirts and has a chup!"

Rebbe's Tish

VoiceOfReason — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 22:04:08 CDT

A large gathering of Chassidim around their Rebbe's table on Friday nights, where they sing and dance and eat food. Also known as a mosh pit. Notorious for heavily lacking in deodorant and forks. Expect to see people picking up herring with their hands.

Crack Square

VoiceOfReason — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:54:41 CDT

Crack Square, also known as "Kikar Amerikaim" by Israelis, is a small square opposite 'Cafe Hillel' and 'Coffee Bean' in Rechov Yaffo in downtown Jerusalem known as a hangout for yeshiva guys and seminary girls who like to drink and do drugs. Crack square is infamous amongst Niveh guys, and many fights take place there. Any yeshiva rebel worth his salt has at least one story about crack square.

The origins of the name "Crack Square" are a matter of dispute amongst many scholars (ok fine, they're not scholars they're actually Niveh & Ner Jake guys), with some claiming it originated from all the crack heads always sitting in the square, others claiming it originated from all the beer bottles thrown and cracked by the crack heads in the square, and yet others claiming it originated from all the heads cracked open in numerous fist fights between crack head yeshiva guys in the square. But all disputes aside, the concensus is that the naming had at least something to do with the crack heads in the square.

Frish Gesheft

shlongsteen — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:37:50 CDT

Lit. - "a new find" but is actually used as a euphamism for that which is NOT new.
i.e. "Tell me something I don't already know."

Ben Zonah

VoiceOfReason — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:36:02 CDT

Hebrew for son of a whore, also similar to the name Seymour Butts for prank Jewish prank call usage.
Also voted "Most Favorite Expression To Shout Out Your Car Window" by over 10,000 Israeli taxi drivers.