Surprising Orthodox Jews by Speaking Yiddish 

I'll check them out. Also you should learn Swahili! Best wishes.

.. to which charity, though?

$100? They saw you coming. You were the biggest lemon in the store! 🤣

I don't know your Jewish/Hebrew name until today. Arieh Moshe???

@@Jack_Nack No, it’s a special citrus for a special occasion. Like some people pay hundreds of dollars for a big, live tree at Christmas.

the least he could do is apply the tefillin🤣

Torah observant Jews want the best for all other Jews. It is less a scolding and more “Torah can benefit you the way it’s benefitted me”. I understand that it could often sound like talking down but truly it is not

@@SammyJoon that’s how most religious people are

@@timtim6373 not exactly. Jews actively advise against converting people. When speaking to non-Jews they will only go as far as explaining the basic laws of a moral society i.e. telling them not to curse god, not to worship idols, not to murder/steal, avoid sex crimes like rape incest adultery, no animal cruelty and to establish courts in their society. Jews are mainly interested in teaching less knowledgable Jewish people about their heritage and how to keep the laws of the Torah. The reason for this is simple: if the Torah is truly divine, Jews could really be in deep trouble for not following the laws. That being said, Jews do not force any strangers to do anything and certainly do not decapitate people for disagreeing with them.

@@thewalrider1159 chill Adolph

It’s just a middle-high German written in a Hebrew script to preserve the old German from what I understand

That’s really cool, technically means Jews and Germans are linked culturally and ethnically

Ja stimmt, hab mich auch gewundert

That's so cool! I'm german and I thought the same thing.

@@anonymoust2877 Culturally, yes, ethnically Ashkenazi Jews mixed primarily Semitic men with Southern Italian women (Sardinians)

Lol awesome ❤

me too but i’m italian/mexican! learned some from the nanny too!

that’s amazing ! keep learning

The Nanny still rocks. Love that show.

Im Scandinavian and the Yiddish I know I learned from Fran too!!😂

I specially like Yiddish songs because many singers speak the words out of rhythm and intonation. For example they would pronounce Kartofelsalat in a song: "kaa🎶aar🎵tou🎵uu🎶flsssssa🎶ääeeel🎶ahh-t🎵and it would sound like a shaman conjuring rain in the desert. When they speak it just sounds a bit odd but in a song it really becomes mystic.

@@dennyb6768 What?

try Swiss-German, I think more difficult than Yiddish.

​@@fowleheidi482 I had to learn swiss german when i moved to Switzerland. Took me a couple of months to even understand them when they go full swiss mode.

There's a dialect of German spoken by some people in Texas that was basically just passed down from their immigrant forefathers, without changing like regular German did. So modern Germans will hear it and say the same, that it sounds like how their grandparents or great grandparents spoke.

I like how one of the comments pointed out: Yiddish sounds like a Dutch person trying to speak German.

It makes sense that Yiddish sounds like Pennsylvania Dutch, because both of the originated in the Rhineland area.

@Jack that would be great idea!

I'm currently learning German, and I can definitely hear the similarities!

it's not Jewish, I think it's German Jews who fled from the Nazi regime in Germany to America at that time

@4:49

@@Cabal-ms3kb @7:46

@@Cabal-ms3kb @5:36

@@G1ngerpocalypse One of these should've been the thumbnail tbh

@4:37

Geshmak = gut schmecken oder lecker

Ek is afrikaans en kan omtrent alles verstaan😅

@@dreanotto3487 Ik kan jou ook verstaan lijkt veel op Nederlands, Afrikaans is een mooie taal.

As a guy from the Netherlands it all sounds very understandable...

​@@mike77gmc ich kann euch auch alle verstehen

Yes! That’s the heart of the Jewish community. There’s no exclusion, just welcoming.

Same. Learned german in school and could always make out some of dutch, didn't know Yiddish was the same,

Yiddish is Middle High German from medieval times with sprinklings of Slavic and Hebrew words.

@@TheDivayenta they were forced to leave and settled in north america pretty early on

I learned a bit of German a while ago, and when I tried to switch to Dutch (because I realized I have Dutch friends, why am I not learning Dutch instead?) my brain couldn't handle the similarity. It's said that Dutch (well, Frisian) is the closest language to English, and supposedly easiest to learn...but I had a far easier time learning German. I did, however, get very good at pronouncing Scheveningen because my Dutch friends would always make fun of me by making me say it!

Same! Amazing! I didn't know Yiddish was so related to Dutch and German!

It's crazy how crowded everything is. Gives me major anxiety. I hate crowds :(

I've seen some but they were in that camp in europe

@@soundofperserverance3363 Booooooo🤢👎

He isn't wrong lmao I thought the same thing

Well he should visit Israel...

wow I'm from Canada too. Not Jewish but try to partake in celebrations if I can. I've always wondered why our community was so small or thought maybe they were very quiet? This life here in this Jewish neighbourhood in NYC is another country altogether! I'd love to experience that and these people.

Yeah, see you're not exactly helping the Jewish reputation when you say the community in Canada thinks you're nobody unless you have money.

@@guytansbariva2295 if you read closely I said where I live in Canada, so that’s a problem with just that small community, I didn’t say ALL Jewish communities in Canada are like that

@@sharonhimmelman9685 Gotcha, sorry I missed that part. But yeah what people have been saying mostly is talking about the very expensive lemon. $100 or so? But it's no different than going to any cultural market, and they've got the expensive stuff at the back, just like Ari liked to see. Arabic markets have $100 dates, and Korean markets have $100 squid. It's all relative.

Hi sharon. Ur name is german and it emeans heavens man

Not wrong though 😂

Lmaoo was just about to comment ahah

he has the youtube algorithm wrapped round his finger at this point lmao

There's a guy on the street in one of his other videos that addressed him literally as that "see you later 'white guy speaks Chinese!' “ 😂

That’s actually how he titled his videos

Translators usually walk with the person they translate for but ye

@@jonathankraig425 😐

To be honest he doesn’t speak that well. But i think he understands much.

😂 right he should be working for Star Fleet - translating the next klingon or romulan langauge for when aliens appear lol

אתה מדבר עברית?

Makes me cry so beautiful 😢

🤣🤣🤣🤣

"If you are hungry, you eat. If you are thirsty, you drink. If you need anything that you cannot find, you ask." That's beautiful. Good rules.

Baruch HaShem. May you continue to be blessed in my life, my friend. Thank you for sharing your story.

1) When you enjoy something you learn extremly fast 2) His brain is used to learn new language so he adapts to a new language really really fast

@@ReloGP14th You make a great point.

hes jewish,,,he should have known this since 5

@@gacy90 I'm Jewish, I live in Israel, my mom and grandparents were speaking Yiddish and I don't understand almost any of it, just funny slang that you can hear on Seinfeld 😂 None of my friends knows this language. Bravo to Xiaoma, for being so passionate about learning languages and connecting with people.

Once you learn a second language, picking up another one is always just a little easier. But it should never be as easy as this man makes it happen 😂😂😂😂 he's a very special person in that regard.

maybe he met his wife or something and he decided to be more religious

@@caroline5573 definitely could be the case. It's just very interesting to me. :)

I’ve been learning German for a few months and I recognized words like danke and fleish

​@@CornholioPuppetMaster That is very cool. The language is not easy to master. A lot of Germans struggle with it too, haha. May I ask what made you learn German? You forgot the C in "Fleisch" by the way :) But that's an easy mistake because it's pronounced like the English "sh", so don't worry.

@@Drumming_Monkey My wife is half German. She hates it when I translate Fleischküchle to "flesh cakes". Even though it's 100% accurate :D Her mother is Schwabish, so Fleischküchle is just meat. Not the pastry covered version from the Black Sea area.

First video he didn't get anything free Lol jk jk

same here, i always knew yiddish was a think but never actually clicked how much sense it makes when I hear it?

Yiddish is so fascinating. It’s really a melting-pot kinda creole language. Yiddish and Modern German both diverged from Middle High German in the 11th and 12th centuries, if I’m not mistaken. All things considered, they’ve had very little time to diverge, and until 100 years ago, very little space to diverge. Their pronunciations are noticeably different, and Modern German uses prefixes, suffixes, and single-word conjugations more than Yiddish does, but the smaller words and root words and nearly identical. Yiddish incorporates a lot of Hebrew, as well as influences from Polish and Russian in some dialects. But anyone who speaks German today should be able to understand Yiddish. They’re not perfectly mutually comprehensible, but you’ll get the gist for sure

The sound of the Yiddish varies by the speaker's accent. Brooklyn "Yeshivish-style" Yiddish (in this video) is very distinct and sounds different than the European Yiddish that European-born Jews from the older, now-geriatric, generation speak.

I'm swedish that understands german and some dutch, this was definitely some hybrid thing. Sounded odd but very interesting and fascinating.

@@YOLOnyc If I can make one correction to an otherwise great point, “Yeshiva-style” Yiddish would actually be spoken by non-Hasidic ultra Orthodox Jews, mostly of Lithuanian descent. Hasidic Yiddish is what was spoken in this video. There is a radical vowel shift between “Yeshivish” Yiddish, which is unfortunately dying very quickly, and Hasidic Yiddish.

Oy vey

@@soundofperserverance3363 haha oy vey iz mir!

@@rebnoyekh work will set you free

@@soundofperserverance3363 actually speaking yiddish and learning about beautiful Jewish culture will ;)

@@rebnoyekh ⚡⚡

That’s beautiful

* Piqued....not peeked.

@@deirdrekiely6187 not to be that person but OP was right with the piqued

@@erinslays OP was not right. OP edited their comment after they were corrected. So yeah, you were that guy

@@erinslays you look the teeny tiny little hats??

Thank *YOU man lol

you can edit comments 😊

What the hell were they saying about your friend?!

@@NYC_Goody as I recall they were insinuating that he was stupid and so would be easy to con into a lower price.

@@charlescurran1289 Typical

It's mainly German, so if you learn the vowel-shifts and pronunciation, you can understand quite a lot in Yiddish if you speak German. I can understand maybe 80% of what I hear in Yiddish. Incidentally, a lot of non-Jewish people had some Yiddish in the old days. Even people who didn't speak German sometimes had some. One famous example is former Secretary of Defense Colin Powell.

I thought the same thing!!

הוא צריך לדעת עברית היוטיובר הזה

It’s basically like German Creole with Hebrew words thrown in & written in Hebrew script. Edit: I forgot to mention there are a few Slavic words thrown in too.

@@divemylollol6152 הוא יודע קצת.

as long as there are Orthodox Ashkenazi, I don't see it disappearing. So that's good.

It’s funny I was told it was dying growing up, but it’s flourishing in Israel and the US in the Hasidic and Ultraorthodx communities. What’s sadly dying is the Judeo-Arabic, Judeo-Maaylan, etc. The Hebrew and other languages for the non European communities

same, all of my grandparents spoke it and didn’t pass it on so they could talk without the kinderlach understanding🫠

My dad's grandfather was Jewish and grew up speaking Yiddish at home with his parents, who were immigrants from Belarus and Ukraine. But he and his siblings didn't pass Yiddish down to their kids, in an effort to assimilate and be more American. I always think it's a tragedy when a culture is lost that way, and I hope younger generations of secular Jews will be interested in reconnecting with Yiddish. I definitely want to learn.

The reintroduction of Hebrew seemed to replace Yiddish for the most part.

many german words also come from the yiddish originally. Tohuwabohu, Ganove, meschugge, it's pretty awesome how the 2 languages are woven together.

@@hanshansomahammau And Kosher :)

@@hanshansomahammau and many terms for money.

@@hanshansomahammau meshuga and ganuv is from hebrew

it is a culture that treats women like 2nd class citizens

@@coloradotrader7202 and what’s your basis for that statement? Let me guess. You watched “unorthodox” on Netflix and now you think you understand hassidic culture?

@@coloradotrader7202 islam?

@@coloradotrader7202 Why are you acting like your culture didn't do that during the 60s? In fact, if you're conservative, you should agree with the culture you hate so much

@@vercot7000 I never said I hated anything, I was just stating a fact. dont get butt hurt bozo

The drivers honking were probably not Jewish?!?

@@DonVideoGuy007 they’re still human and are not perfect. C’mon dude, a “reminder.” I’m sure you’ve missed your alarm a few times in your life, but you still set it. We are not robots and rigid in our convictions, even if at times we should be. The reminders we place on ourselves to improve our behavior are helpful tools.

Your username fits you.

Keep being cool, drippy rat. Respect!

Exactly,much respect for doing that. ❤️🕊️

Man i have somehow literally never met anyone of japanese ancestry here in north america.

@@thorodinson6649 Very common on the West Coast. LA SF etc. Whole communities.

@@shrayesraman5192 Vancouver Canada there are plenty

Where fr do u live bro

日本語は少し話します。でも。。。まだまだです。

because its yiddish and not hebrew language

thats antisemitic unless you're jewish

@@andyrobin7196 How?

@@LaFlaneuse0 cultural appropriation

@@andyrobin7196 as a jewish person, no it isn't lol

Living in Southern California I think I missed out with not living in this kind of community

Hello maym please🙏 help😭 me

I mean it's basically German.

Which is crazy because it split from High German over a thousand years ago.

@@jaredf6205 Yiddish evolved alongside other German dialects through the centuries. It isn't that different to modern German, and very different to Old High German.

And Yiddish and Ladino speakers would use Biblical Hebrew to communicate with each other when they met.

@@rlt9492 Which is the actual unifying language.

Actually, the were Judeo versions of many other languages too, Yiddish (Judeo Middle-High German) is the only surviving one but there was Judeo Italian, Judeo French, etc. Ladino (Judeo Spanish) is a novel language at this point used mostly in music, very few people speak it as their primary language these days.

Do they speak Yiddish in Israel?

@@rlt9492 Not Biblical Hebrew. Medieval Hebrew.

Yeah I watched a documentary and the hasidics refused to mention women because theres apparently a big abuse problem.

Eh, their culture is toxic, I don’t think we should be pretending that an ancient religious way of living is somehow pure or beautiful. It’s primitive and full of shit speaking from first hand experience

These are Orthodox Jews, not Hasidic.

@@GoBlueHTB I think Orthodox is kind of an umbrella term that could include many orthodox groups. If you’re Jewish, please educate me if I’m wrong.

​@@christophershirley3279 Orthodox means traditional, aka not Reform or Conservative. Inside Orthodox Jews there are Modern Orthodox (also Religious Zionists in Israel) and Haredim (what some people call Ultra-Orthodox). And inside the last group, there are Sephardic and Ashkenazi (wich also exist inside the other communities), and inside the Ashkenazi community there are Hasidic Jews and Misnagdim (opponents of Hasidism). Sorry if its too complicated, but Hasidic Jews are only a part of Orthodox Jews.

looooooool

except judaism is an ethnicity

You must have missed the beginning where they gave a sandwich

that's not a lemon it's an Etrog, and it's not for eating but for making a commandment from the bible.

It's not a lemon it's an Etrog

It's not a lemon, it's an Etrog (citron), and it's a really expensive fruit.

True

Hell yea man!

But I can speak Hebrew, and I don't understand Yiddish at all 🥲

The wife and I will have to check this neighborhood out next time we go to New York !

@@dankelly5150 don’t forget crown heights! this year is prob gonna be more packed lol

I can't get over "De Fleisch ist geschmack"

@@ireadysucks3026 CH speaks the least yiddish, Williamsburg the most and Borough Park comes in at second place.

He is Jewish, so it is not that strange that they say that 🙃

@@Ordo1980 Some groups of people have the “if you weren’t born and lived it, you’re not it” mentality. I’m just glad he’s welcoming of it. :)

@@Diablochild123 Usually orthodox Jews have that belief, that no jew can leave completely the religion, because it is like something what you inherit as a jew. So they think that everybody can come back, they just have to practice it again. So they see somebody like Arieh as a potential returnee.

@@Ordo1980 ye kind of. Your born Jewish, and that’s that. A non-Jew cannot turn around one day and say “I believe in Hashem (G-d)” and be Jewish. That’s why even myself I’m not religious at all, but if I went to that neighbourhood and told them my name (which is very Jewish) they would take me in no doubt in my mind.

@@Ordo1980 Yes he is born Jewish but is a secular Jew and these gentlemen in the video are religious Jews. We all are from Adam, thats what really matters.

It’s so amazing. As a kid, I was one of two, maybe three Jews in my class. At Jewish summer camp the weight of explaining your heritage constantly being gone was an experience like no other. I loved it. My high school had almost 30% Jewish population (public school), which was a culture shock- I was used to being one of the only Jews, and the only observant one!

It's danken Gott.

This guy IS Duolingo

Or at least win a lil taco. Lol

Yeah, Duolingo maybe...

Never new YOU were Jewish either…shalom אחי 😁😁😁 it’s a small world we live in.

@@mikewizowski441 I never knew you were Jewish as well. It really is a small world after all. Shalom!

Shalom!

Hello sir🙏 please help me😭

You blind bro ? 😂

That mythical Jinn would somehow find a way to mess up your wish, they always do 😂 But that would make a heck of a good storyline!

I enjoy mushrooms, and it reminds me of when they are hitting a little too hard in public.

Wouldn’t be surprised if you helped move the family prayer book, moms book, dads book, grandpas book, the kids books, the book they got as a gift for donating to the synagogue, the book they got from volunteering at the community vegetable garden, the special High Holy Days book, kids storybooks about virtue, and three copies of Chicken Soup for the Soul. And I’d bet they had a kids table too!

Right! Like get a life lol

jews in general are some of the biggest book lovers ever.

I think he was saying 2-3 weeks and meant 2-3 hours based on what his friend kept saying, along with the interaction with that one man by the car (who had groceries).

Tajt siker vagy haver, vagy csak mesüge? Kukkold már meg! Nem látod, hogy kasa a szajré, nem tré? Mázlink volt, ne majrézz! If you can get around Hungarian orthography you can understand some of this sentence intentionally replete with jiddis words :D

He did a weird mixture of the dialects. For instance, he called his friend his brider instead of his bruder, so there was some galitzianer.

American hassidim are the biggest American Yiddish speaking community

same

I did too.

Or just "family". Jewish obsession is unbelievably demonstrated and common. Saying that Jewish people are fascinating or good with money or even so kind and helpful, is the same of saying and thinking the opposite. What a crazy stupid Neurotypical world!

@@HPMTube1991 Your point is?

@@HPMTube1991 I have no such opinions. That’s a pretty aged opinion and small demographic. I don’t know anyone that says that except nazis and some odd elderly. I didn’t say any of that too so don’t hijack my post with this junk

@Varoth The point is- that neurotypicals tend to associate a parameter that is irrelevant as a factor. For example here; One taxpayer who was helped as a child by a family that lived near his home, apparently. Why the immediate tendency is, to mention that they are of Jewish origin. Moreover, it is an almost universal subconscious, classifying other taxpayers, according to one irrelevant variable. Usually religious or ethnic or national. 'Origin' or 'religion', in a context that is not national or religious, is the same as a reference to an eye color or a preferred taste or color. It is an archetype of social construction and primitive conditioning. And everyone suffers from it, almost without exception. I am outstanding. Although I am autistic and highly integrated and schizoid, it is enough to have a basic intelligence and an objective line of thought. In addition, the world needs to stop with the Jewish obsession. But also, with any other obsession. A saying like 'Jews are kind and they tend to help others' (similar to the response of the one above) is just like the saying 'Jews are greedy and dominate the dome' or any other dogmatism. I will suggest a literal (but not thoughtful) correction to the following: As a child, I was once caught up in state X and was helpless. For my benefit, a family that lives near where I live was provided with assistance. falcon

@@HPMTube1991 dude, relax the guy was showing appreciation for someone who did a good deed for them, and I'm Jewish orthodox,and appreciated the gesture... not everything is offensive

Welcome... If you are in the big city you could check out some of the Jewish delicatessens.

@@jaybloomfield5082 i worked at Carnegie deli in nyc for 2 years 😭

@@brianakelley123 they’re not kosher. JS

💓💓💓 So sorry to hear what she went thru.