Religion:Pintele Yid
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Pintele Yid, often translated as "Jewish spark", is a Yiddish phrase describing the notion that every Jewish person has an essential core of Jewishness within them, even if they are assimilated or are unaware of their Jewishness.[1] Jewish converts may also be described as having a pintele Yid that lead them to Judaism.[2] The term is most commonly used by Ashkenazim and Orthodox Jews.[3]
Etymology
Pintele is a diminutive Yiddish word for "little point" and Yid is a term for a Jewish person, so pintele Yid can be translated literally as "the little point of a Jew".[4] The Hebrew language equivalent of the term is "Nitzotz HaYehudi".[5]
See also
- Crypto-Judaism
- Jewish assimilation
- Yiddishkeit
References
- ↑ "Krakow wont be the same without its pintele Yid". The Jewish News of Northern California. https://jweekly.com/2009/02/06/krakow-wont-be-the-same-without-its-pintele-yid/. Retrieved 2023-04-29.
- ↑ "Rabbi Refoel Levitt, the go-to guy for Orthodox conversion". Intermountain Jewish News. https://www.ijn.com/rabbi-refoel-levitt-the-go-to-guy-for-orthodox-conversion/. Retrieved 2023-04-29.
- ↑ "Pintele Yid". Jewish English Lexicon. https://jel.jewish-languages.org/words/434. Retrieved 2023-04-29.
- ↑ "An Essential Point". The Forward. https://forward.com/news/9020/an-essential-point/. Retrieved 2023-04-29.
- ↑ "HaNer Tamid in Parashat Tzav". Sefaria. https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/391274?lang=bi. Retrieved 2023-04-29.
External links
- Opinion - Ruthless Cosmopolitan: Farewell to a ‘pintele Yid’, Jewish Telegraphic Agency
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