JustASC

I love Yeshivish, the Hebrew-Yiddish-English patois you hear mostly in the Orthodox community. I found a great example today while fact-checking an article about the Purim gifts known as mishloach manot:

The Binyan Tzion, Rav Yaakov Etlinger, is Misupak if you are Yotzei the Mitzva of Mishloach Manos if you present it yourself, since Mishloach implies that you must send it with a shaliach. Others like the Eishel Avrohom and Rav Shlomo Kluger hold that you are certainly yotzei if you bring it personally.

And the thing that scares me is that I understand every word! To wit: A legal authority known as the “Builder of Zion” doubts that you fulfill the commandment of delivering Purim gifts if you do it personally — because the Hebrew for such gifts implies that it must be sent by an emissary. Two other authorities say it counts if you do it yourself.

 Takeh, I need to lie down.