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?????????? ma-a-cha-zim [settlements, outposts]
Sounds like “ma ah cha zim” ; Reminds me of “ma has him”
So this man made my mother mad and she chased him from settlement
to settlement. Finally she cornered him in a tiny settlement that was so
small it he couldn’t run past her so at last, ma has him. “ma has him”
Imagine you are watching your mom running after this man and finally
catching him in a tiny settlement
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???????? le-e-chose [to hold]
Sounds like “le eh hose” ; Reminds me of “lay a hose”
You just started working in a firehouse and so you have to do whatever
the senior firemen tell you to do. One says lay a hose on the floor over
there and so you do. Laying a hose involves holding the hose in a certain
way because it is heavy and unwieldy. The next man says lay a hose
over on the other side of the firehouse and so you do that too, again
holding the hose awkwardly. After the fourth fireman has you laying the
hose in the fourth place you realize they are just having fun with you at
your expense and so you quit. To this day whenever you see a fire truck
you think of holding a hose and moving it.
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???????? shi-t-chey [areas]
Sounds like “sheet hay” ; Reminds me of “sheet of hay”
You are a scientist trying to find new uses of renewable materials such as hay.
You finally are able to weave it, through a secret process, into large sheets
that can be used to cover whole areas of a farm that needs to be kept in the
shade. Think of an area the size of the entire farm covered by a single sheet
of hay.
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??????????? yi-shu-vim [Big settlements, small towns]
Sounds like “ye shu vim”; Reminds me of “you shove him”
Here we already know the word for small settlements.
?????????? “Ma has him”. So this we build on this and continue the story. Now
that ma has him, you take over and shove him into a big settlement or small
town in order to find a courthouse so he can be punished according to the
law. You know otherwise, your mom would have probably killed him.
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??????????? ???? nik-ra-im gam [also called]
Sounds like “nikra gam” ; Reminds me of “knee crow gum”
You see many crows on the fence but they are acting strangely. They are
moving up and down by bending their knees. It reminds you of the rhythm
of a line of people chewing gum in a line at the same time. You are trying
to think of what to call such a line and you come up with several possibilities.
The “chewing” line , also called the “gum” line, also called the “people who
chew like cows” line, also called the…..etc.
Another way to remember it is to use what we already know. Here we may
already know ???????? means “be called or be read” and ???? means “again”.
When these are put together it is easy to see why ??????????? ???? means "also
called".
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??????????????? hit na cha lu yot [settlements]
Sound like “hit na cha lu yot” ; Reminds me of “hit not challah oat”
This is a third word in this group involving settlements.
Review the other two now. “Ma has him, ?????????? , in a small settlement
and you shove him, ??????????? , into a big settlement.”
Now you are working in a bakery and the baker makes special bread. He
instructs you that once bread comes out of the oven you are to hit it with
a paddle but only if it is white challah not oat challah. It is confusing to you
so you keep repeating to yourself “hit not, challah oat”. The oat challah is
to be sent to all the settlements but not to the city, only the settlements,
big or small it doesn’t matter.
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????????? ish-ra [approved]
Sounds like “ish raw”; Reminds me of “fish raw”
At a sushi bar the only approved fish is raw fish. So you are eating delicious
tuna at this sushi bar and someone orders a meal of fried cod. You remind
him, “sorry, but the only approved fish is raw fish”. “Fish raw?” He says,
“that’s disgusting” and leaves in a huff. Actually, he left in a limousine.
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???????? hu-kmo [established]
Sounds like “who kmo”; Reminds me of “hook mo’” (slang for hook more”)
Long ago, you established a fish camp in the wilderness by a beautiful lake.
It has been there many years now, it is well known, people come from all
over to fish and you are very proud of it. People catch many fish in the lake
and when they tell you how many, you are famous for saying “Hook more”.
After a while they just call you “Hook Mo’”. Eventually they even think your
name is Mr. Hook Moe”. You can’t be any more established than that.
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?????????? has-ka-ma [consent]
Sounds like “has comma”; Reminds me of “a scheme, eh?”
A bunch of crooks agree on a plan to rob the biggest casino in Las Vegas but
they need one more key person to agree to the plan. They approach him,
explain their plan and he twirls his mustache and with a slight smile says “a
scheme, eh?” They explain that it won’t work unless he agrees to be a part
of it. They keep explaining. He just keeps saying “a scheme, eh?” He finally
agrees.
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??????????? nech-sha-vim [are considered]
Sounds like "neck shaving"
At this barber shop they specialize in neck shaving. Its located near a prison
and the convicts (cons) are so nervous that often a convict (Jewish or not)
will sit with a siddur in his lap praying that his neck isn't cut. So the person
is a con with a siddur (con-sider) and the barber is neck shaving (nech-sha-vim)
him.
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