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  1. Newsgroups: soc.culture.jewish
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!das.wang.com!wang!news
  3. From: warren@nysernet.org (Warren Burstein)
  4. Subject: Re: Prayer shawls
  5. Reply-To: warren@nysernet.org
  6. Organization: Mail to News Gateway at Wang Labs
  7. Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 10:25:33 GMT
  8. Message-ID: <2862@israel.nysernet.org>
  9. References: <9211161916.AA16643@cyclone.sbi.com>
  10. Sender: news@wang.com
  11. Lines: 12
  12.  
  13. In <9211161916.AA16643@cyclone.sbi.com> gertler@cyclone.sbi.com (Don Gertler) writes:
  14.  
  15. >It's a calque (loan translation) from Yiddish.  If you want to stick
  16. >to Hebrew, just call it, imprecisely, "tzitzit."
  17.  
  18. If you walk into a store and ask for tzitzit, I think you'll get a
  19. package of sixteen pieces of wool thread.
  20. -- 
  21. /|/-\/-\          Adif tzav pinui metzav shmoneh.
  22.  |__/__/_/    
  23.  |warren@         "Warren's slogan is an Anti-semite slogan."
  24. / nysernet.org                 Gideon Ehrlich
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