Yiddish Expressions for a Heat Wave װעגן דער היץ
Image from Globukoya memorial site: Girls in a class at an ORT trade school for seamstresses in the first year that the courses existed. (Yiddish sign on wall) "May good fortune come to the hands and forehead from which sweat pours." 1923.
װאַרעם װי די זון Varem vi di zun
Warm like the sun
װי קױלן vi koyln
Like coals
װי אין באָד אױף דער אײבערשטער באַנק vi in bod af der erybershter bank
Like on the top bench in a steam bath
װי אין אַן אױער vi in an oyer
Like in an ear (!)
װי אונטער אַ פּערענע vi unter a perene
Like under a featherbed
װי אין אַ װאַטאָװן לײַבל vi in a vatovn laybl
Like in a padded union-suit
װי אין פּױשטן vi in poyshtn
Like in felt
װי אין אַ פּאָסעכע vi in a posekhe
Like during a drought
װי פֿײַער װאָלט געפֿאַלן פֿון הימל vi fayer volt gefaln fun himl
As if fire had fallen from heaven
עס איז קײן טראָפּ לופֿט נישטאָ es iz keyn trop luft nito
There is not a drop of air
מען קען צעגאַנגען װערן men ken tsegangen vern
You could melt
גאָט האָט אַרױסגעלאָזט די זון פֿון פֿוטערפֿעסל
Got hot aroysgelozt di zun fun futerfesl
God let the sun out of its container
קאָכעדיק װי אין סאַמאָװאַר
kokhedik vi in samovar
Boiling like in a samovar
װאָס עס גײט אַװעק װינטער אױף הײצונג גײט אַװעק זומער אױף נאַרישקײטן.
vos es geyt avek vinter af heytsung geyt avek zumer af narishkeytn
What you spend in the winter on heat, you spend in the summer on stupidity.
posted by the chocolate doctor מרת שאקאלאד at 1:28 AM
6 Comments:
These will get me through this heat wave!
A union suit is a "laybl"! Who knew? Although even thinking about union suits today is making me sweat. We're having our first hot day of the summer and, as predicted, have gone from complaining about summer not arriving to complaining about its arrival.
The expression "As if G-d took the sun out of its container" is taken from the sefer Midrash Rabba on Bereshis. When Avroham was recuperating from his bris G-d took the sun out of its container so that Avroham would be warm and heal more readily, and to discourage visitors from visiting him. When G-d saw that Avroham was troubled by the lack of visitors He sent some malochim down to visit him, just so Avroham could show them hospitality.
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