Re: Ipcha Mistabra: OT

[wiener <wiener...>]

OT
The word is usually written "copacetic" or "copasetic".

Bob

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From: WINSTON WEILHEIMER <nusach (at) hotmail(dot)com>
To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Date: Friday, May 04, 2001 5:51 PM
Subject: Re: Ipcha Mistabra


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>>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
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>>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.
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>>Cantor Sam Weiss === Jewish Community Center of Paramus, NJ
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>that reminds me....it always sends a chill up my spine when someone
says
>everything is "kobesedik!"
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>...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.
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>shabbat shalom
>winston
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