Posted by Toby Inkster on 03/19/06 00:27

saz wrote:
> doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au says:
>
>> Jesus talks about poor schmucks (but perhaps not in these
>> terms... although.... although.... when one thinks about it... He
>> was Jewish! And who knows what He said off camera?)
>
> I'm not sure exactly what that was all about, but are you slamming Jews?

I don't think so. I think dorayme meant that the word "schmuck" is
Yiddish, so may have been a word that Jesus might have used, being Jewish.

That said, although it has some Hebrew influence, Yiddish actually has
Germanic roots, and split from mainstream German in about the 13th century
-- well after the time that Christ may have contemplated the cause of
schmucks.

The primary Jewish language 2000 years ago was, and still is today, Hebrew.

That said, I don't think dorayme was being entirely serious.

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