oylem haze

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Pronunciations

olam haze (oh-LAHM hah-ZEH) listen

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Definitions

Example Sentences

  • "Gentiles also live in poverty, they also have to worry about demons and evil spirits, but the world around them is the one they're meant to be in. Oylem Haze, 'this world', is their world." (source)

  • "The books of Martin Buber, and especially his seminal work 'I-and-Thou', allow us, it seems to me, to distinguish with better precision between Olam Haze and Olam Haba, using criteria which are meaningful to the individual and communal life of any educated reader, be (s)he Christian or Jew, religious or secular or even an agnostic." (source)

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Languages of Origin

  • Textual Hebrew
  • Yiddish

Etymology

  • TH עולם הזה olám hazé > Y עולם־הזה oylem-haze

      • Who Uses This

      • Religious: Jews who are engaged in religious observance and have some Jewish education
      • 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).

      Alternative Spellings

      oylam haze, olam haze, oilem haze, oilam haze

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