Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Yiddish, mispoken

I've been describing the time to light candles just before the beginning of Sabbath and Festival evening as "lacht-benschen" for probably over 30 years. The rabbi just informed me that "lacht" means "laughed," and that the correct term is "licht-benschen." Now he tells me?!

Oy.

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