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.
We would have heard this if phone chargers were around in the 1970s
Which translates into:
