Yiddish Word of the Day: The Ten Commandments

Two weeks ago on the holiday of Shavuot we read the Ten Commandments in shul. Most of us are familiar with the wording of these precepts in Hebrew and in English. But what about Yiddish?

In the Forverts' series "Yiddish Word of the Day", Rukhl Schaechter shows us how to say "Ten Commandments" in Yiddish and some expressions relating to them.

Schaechter, who was appointed the new editor of the Forverts in 2016, is the first woman to helm the paper in its 119-year history, its first editor to have been born in the United States, and likely its first editor who is shomeret Shabbat.

We posted the first of this series in May 2020. Now that the Forverts is continuing the series, we are continuing to share some of the words and phrases as a regular feature of Jewish Humor Central.

Enjoy!

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