Jewish Dictionary Words This Month

Lag B’Omer- a) A holiday kids celebrate in Israel by burning anything they can. This includes, trees, branches, homes. It’s not considered antisemitism. It’s a festivity. Kids start collecting objects for this holiday six months in advance. So, protect your home. Sentence: ‘Where are the cabinets? It was just here yesterday.’ Sentence 2: ‘That door belongs on the hinges. Thank you. This is our home.’ Sentence 3: ‘Please put grandpa back.’ b) Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai died on this day. Therefore, kids traditionally shoot an arrow, to add to the danger of the uncontained fires.

Ima- a) A person who does everything for you. These people clean, wash your clothes, cook, listen to your complaints. Then, you get married and complain about them visiting. See Shviger for how you offensively refer to people who love you. b) The lyrics to every Mizrachi song. Full Lyrics to Mizrachi Song: “Ima. Ani Ohev Otach. Ima.”
 
Shavuis- a) A holiday people celebrate by staying up all night to learn, in commemoration of the receiving of the Torah. Sentence: ‘Mom. Shavuis is my least favorite holiday. I thought holidays meant we had off from school. Now we have classes. How is that a holiday?! I don’t like celebrating classes.’ Follow-up Sentence: ‘Why do we always celebrate stuff I hate?! The eighth-grade graduation. I hated grade school.’ b) The holiday of dairy. The Chag responsible for Blintzes, cheesecake and acid reflux.

Bachur- A young lad or anybody that’s not married. Sentence: ‘We are so proud of him. The Bachur is only 83.’ Another Sentence: ‘I am 45 years of age. Why am I sitting at the kid’s table?’ Sentence of Anger: 'My nephew just got married, so he's a nineteen-year-old man and I'm a forty-eight-year-old little child.'

Badatz- Another kosher endorsement for Israeli food, and something else to bring up the cost of Bamba. Sentence: ‘Can I trust one rabbi and save money on the peanut butter puffs?’ Alternative Sentence: ‘There are a lot of Hebrew words there. Does that mean it’s a legit Hashgacha (supervision)? The Kosher symbol has a lot of rabbis’ names. No logo. Just Hebrew. Does that make it Kosher? Does Hebrew with ovals and circles make things Kosher?’

We want to thank David Kilimnick for sharing that the idea of Shavuis is celebrated to cause him an upset stomach. His understanding of Jewish law makes our practice of Mitzvot more meaningful.