Re: Ipcha Mistabra

[WINSTON WEILHEIMER <nusach...>]

>From: Sam Weiss <samweiss (at) bellatlantic(dot)net>
>Reply-To: jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
>To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>Subject: Re: Ipcha Mistabra
>Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 17:35:26 -0400
>
>Just to tidy up Shirona's correct explanation...
>"Ipcha Mistabra" is the typical term in the Talmud for "On the
>contrary!"  used as an introduction to a counter-argument.  The phrase
>entered the Yiddish of the typical learned East-European Jew, and from
>there it was taken into Israeli Hebrew.
>
>______________________________________________________
>Cantor Sam Weiss === Jewish Community Center of Paramus, NJ
>
that reminds me....it always sends a chill up my spine when someone says 
everything is "kobesedik!"

...and i look at them and it makes makes wonder what would they think if 
they knew it was really hebrew! (hakol beseder), and if they would use it if 
they knew! if the speaker is Jewish, i tell them.

shabbat shalom
winston
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