Since joining the Jewish Light I’ve reflected on my own Jewish experience growing up and part of that was the Yiddish my grandparents would use, particularly my maternal grandparents whom I affectionately named Mama and Baba.
Both would use Yiddish on occasion. Not really knowing what they were saying, I just laughed at how funny they sounded. But some of the words and phrases stuck in my head. With a bit of research, I think I’ve found what they were saying.
Past Yiddish with from Clara Deitchman
We would hear this after she’d cook a meal and someone would complain
We would hear this during a thunderstorm
My bubbe was not a fan of bad weather, especially thunder storms with lightning.
Which translates into:
