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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.
Today, shivi’im is trifling amount compared to the reigning big numbers of billion and trillion.
The term moshav laitzim comes from Psalms 1:1. “Happy is the man that has not walked in the counsel of the wicked, nor stood in the way of sinners, nor sat in a place of scoffers.”
A midrash (Deuteronomy Rabba 4:2) on the giving of the Torah describes safra vesaifa descending from the heavens.
A tzavua person dyes him or herself to give off a false appearance.
The Talmud speaks of “yayin hamazug bemayim, wine blended with water”.
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