Jehanne said:
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I certainly wish that fewer readers needed explanations of words like "Tashlikh," "mama-loshn," and "daven." Wouldn't that be nice?
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I'm sorry but I find that just a
tad condescending of you, Jehanne!
I'm not Jewish and I've never heard (or seen) any of those words before in my life. Naturally I know about bar mitzvahs, Hannukkah and Yom Kippur - stuff like that is very common knowledge - but the ones you mention? Uh-uh. People like me DO need, and appreciate, footnotes, endnotes etc of things that are totally outside our sphere of knowledge. (When I'm reading a poetry book, maybe in bed for instance, I haven't always got Google to hand!)
I'm of reasonable intelligence but my husband is
very brainy and can occasionally baffle me with stuff, then get all surprised when I don't know what he means. I make my point by saying things like, "OK, what does p.s.s.o. mean, then?" It's 'pass slipped stitch over', from a knitting pattern and he knows squat about knitting! I rest my case.