mazume
Pronunciations
mazume | (muh-ZOO-muh) | listen |
Definitions
n. The prelude to the Birkat Hamazon in which one participant leads a call and response with the other participants.
n. A group of at least three adult males who gather to recite the Birkat Hamazon.
n. Money, cash.
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Languages of Origin
- Textual Hebrew
- Yiddish
Etymology
TH מזמן mezuman, 'prepared, ready' > Y מזמן mezumn 'cash'
- Religious: Jews who are engaged in religious observance and have some Jewish education
- Orthodox: Jews who identify as Orthodox and observe halacha (Jewish law)
- Older: Jews who are middle-aged and older
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- North America
- The New Joys of Yiddish, by Leo Rosten and Lawrence Bush (New York, 2003[1968]).
- Yiddish and English: A Century of Yiddish in America, by Sol Steinmetz (Tuscaloosa, 1986).
- The Joys of Hebrew, by Lewis Glinert (New York, 1992).
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Alternative Spellings
mezumn, mezumonim, mazumen, mezumen, mazuman, mezuman, mezumeh, mazumeh, mazuma, mezume, mazumah, mezumah, mezuma
Notes
With the after-meal blessings usage, it is often used in the phrase "to bentsh mezumen... The Hebrew-origin term for such a combination of three or more is a zimmun" (Steinmetz). In some non-Orthodox communities, the term can be used to refer to three or more Jewish adults, not just men.
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