kest

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Definitions

  • n. Room and board, especially when provided by the bride's parents for a set period of time to allow the groom to continue his Torah studies.

Example Sentences

  • "After marriage and five years of kest (the equivalent of kollel that existed for promising young talmidei chachamim in pre-World War I Eastern Europe), he became rav in Kveidan, a town near Kovno, Lithuania, where he remained through World War I before he moved to America." (source)

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Languages of Origin

  • Yiddish

Etymology

  • קעסט kest

      • Who Uses This

      • Older: Jews who are middle-aged and older
      • Ashkenazim: Jews with Ashkenazi heritage

      Regions

      • North America

      Dictionaries

      • Yiddish and English: A Century of Yiddish in America, by Sol Steinmetz (Tuscaloosa, 1986).

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