Posted by mbstevens on 03/19/06 01:31

Toby Inkster wrote:

> 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.

It also means jewelry.
http://www.schmuckmuseum-pforzheim.de

....Pforzheim has one of the major jewelry schools in the world, but that
website!
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mbstevens
http://www.mbstevens.com/

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