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n. Spirit, "spiritedness, morale." (JPS)
"The singing children had a lot of ruach." "We've got ruach, yes we do, we've got ruach, how bout you?"
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רוח
ruah, ruekh
This word originally comes from textual Hebrew, where it meant "wind", but over time came to mean "spirit", "enthusiasm", or "soul" depending on context.
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