Yiddish

Ethnologue 16th edition Language Code: yid
Yiddish, a macrolanguage of Israel

Ethnologue 16th edition Language Code: ydd
Yiddish, Eastern, a language of Israel

Ethnologue 16th edition Language Code: yih
Yiddish, Western, a language of Germany

Ethnologue 16th edition Language Code: yds
Yiddish Sign Language, a language of Israel

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When I lived in Israel, conversations among people with differing language capabilities very quickly and naturally adjusted to the needs present. In one such conversation a woman spoke English and Yiddish. Two others spoke German and Hebrew and could understand Yiddish. I spoke English and German and simple Hebrew but I could not understand Yiddish. The way it worked was one of the ones who understood Yiddish would relay to me in German what was said. I would try and speak Hebrew but if I wasn't understood I would be asked in German what I was trying to say. English was not part of the conversation. We chattered for a long time successfully communicating as a team.

I discovered later that the ones who relayed the things I didn't understand from the Yiddish into German did not actually want to speak German. Although German was their first language, due to the pain of having participated in the Holocaust, it gave them pain to speak German. Many in the kibbutz where I lived had identifications tattooed on their arms from the concentration camps. My Hebrew teacher was one who purchased ships and had them outfitted to bring Jewish people out of Europe to what is now Israel. Unfortunately, it was illegal for them to step on to "The Land." They had to jump into the sea at Caesarea and hike over the hills by night and disperse.

When one starts to play a game of pool, the balls are congregated within the triangular guide which helps "form" them for the start. As soon as the game starts, one player hits one ball toward the triangle and the balls move all over the table. As the game proceeds balls go into the pockets of the table and fewer balls are left. If a person came into the room and looked at the table and saw for the first time, he would not be able to figure out what had gone on before his entrance.

The situation would change, however, if the rules of the game were explained, and a summary of each play that had happened since the start of the game were given, along with feelings of gain and loss, triumph and pain.

We were not there with you as the degradation of who you were began, followed by misfortune, mistreatment, and unspeakable things, culminating in not even wanting to speak your mother tongue (where that applies). But we can see something happened. I walked in very late, I wasn't even born yet. But the testimony of words and feelings and actions speaks to me volumes. In America we say, "Before you criticize me, walk a mile in my shoes." I only walked next to you when life was better for you and I could see what happened.

I can only say I am so sorry that this happened to you. You might answer, "You didn't do it, why are you sorry?"

I am sorry because we have done so many things that have convinced you that you are on your own and must protect against all those who are remotely belonging to Christianity.

There was a time when such bad things were done to me, an alive Christian, by "Christians in name only," that I got them confused with God. In anger I lashed out at God and said some strong, irrevocable things. I thought God was one of them. In the moment that I spoke so negatively to him, he spoke back immediately, "Oh my child, it's all right to hate hate, just don't harden your heart to me."

In a moment, I realized that the bad behavior shown by these "Christians in name only" was not from God and it was hate and I was given permission to hate hate. He just requested that I keep his character separate from their character and be open to him. In just a moment I changed from being conflicted to the core of my being to being free to relate to God freely, apart from their behavior. And on both sides we professed to be Christians.

How difficult it must be to be in two supposedly different religions and hear what God said.

Since the Internet can be anonymous, you could be looking at and reading this page and I will never know it. I ask you to consider that we have the same God and that he wants to straighten out some very terrible things in how we relate to him and to each other, all the while bad things continue to happen that we cannot control. But we find out something new, something we had not known before, that changes our lives from inside.

Yes, I think I understand how upsetting it can be to you, that I would want to share Jesus with you, as if you were a person to add to my catch, as a person would add a fish to a string of fish. As if I disrespected your faith and your religion. As if you had no God. As if I knew better than you what is good for you. As if I could decide for you.

My motivation is actually different. No one told me about Jesus, that he could come into my life. I went to church and no one told me. When finally I somehow found him, I became angry and distrustful of those who should know but didn't share with me. My motivation is that no one be without the knowledge of Jesus regardless of their decision to partake or not to partake. My motivation is to share where there is openness. I do not have to know who you are. It is only important to me that I reach out.

As I search on the Internet for material that could show the choice Jesus presents to us in Yiddish, I find none. I do not speak or understand Yiddish, therefore, I must wait.

If you are able to read any other language, perhaps you can find what I would like to provide on another language page. If you feel that you can do this, you could ask God about what you're reading here. Give him a chance to move in your life and say something. You can also ask that he answer in a way that makes sense to you and that will not scare you. If God is love and he loves you, he's going to be OK with your reaching out to him for truth.

You never have to tell me. If someone does come up to you and starts talking with you about this, after you've given God the go-ahead to speak, try and remember, he might be answering you. I refer you to the movie Bruce Almighty. He asked God for a sign and a truck full of signs pulled directly in front of his car so he almost hit it. Yes, it was a movie, but it makes a point.

Jesus is Lord

1 Corinthians 12:3 Amplified Bible (AMP)

3 "Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking under the power and influence of the [Holy] Spirit of God can [ever] say, Jesus be cursed! And no one can [really] say, Jesus is [my] Lord, except by and under the power and influence of the Holy Spirit."