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"I still can't taste the nafka minah between Coke and Pepsi."
Lo naim means more than "unpleasant" and has no exact English equivalent.
In addition to meaning “thus”, ken also means valid.
According to New York Times columnist William Safire, the Yiddish beigel was shortened and anglicised to bagel around 1932.
Tinok shenishbah means a small child who was kidnapped by non-Jews.
In the Bible, de'ah means knowledge.
Etnachta is one of the biblical cantillation symbols first developed in talmudic times and codified by the 10th century.
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