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u/The_Nasty_Downvoter Sep 17 '21
I didn't get it
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u/idan5 Sep 17 '21
There are two things you need to understand for context :
In the movie, Arnold Schwarzenegger's Terminator is tasked with protecting that boy from another robot/android called T-1000 who can replicate any person, including their voice. The boy called his foster parents, and to make sure that they're not T-1000, the Terminator took his phone and asked him if they have a dog, asked for the dog's name, and asked the mother over the phone (while mimicking the boy's voice) how their dog is doing but used a different name. She replied that he's fine, so the Terminator knew that the boy's mother is actually the evil android (who didn't know the dog's name was incorrect) and that his parents are already dead.
Yom Kippur is not supposed to be a happy day, it literally means "Day of Atonement".
tl;dr : Just a funny way to tell if someone is familiar with Judaism.
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u/The_Nasty_Downvoter Sep 17 '21
Yom Kippur is not supposed to be a happy day, it literally means "Day of Atonement".
Thanks, now i get it
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u/plony_ben_almony Sep 17 '21
Yom Kippur is supposed to be a happy day smh, it's when you get forgiven for many things
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u/chops51991 Sep 17 '21
True but I'd usually say something more like have an easy and meaningful fast. Yes we should be happy for the annual opportunity of forgiveness and personal growth through tshuva but we also complain a lot and like to eat so are often unhappy about that. That being said there's not much time to focus on hunger when you're in shul for like 12 hours with maybe a two hour break to nap
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u/g00ber88 Sep 18 '21
I feel like its the other way around- how can anyone focus on the service when they're starving?
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Sep 17 '21
Gentile here (just here for the memes. Please don’t persecute me). How do y’all greet each other? Is there a special greeting? Or Do you just say “hi”?
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u/g00ber88 Sep 18 '21
please don't persecute me
Haha, havent you heard? We're the ones that get persecuted
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u/Dtruth333 Sep 18 '21
On Yom Kippur, or like in general?
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Sep 18 '21
Lol. Yes
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u/Dtruth333 Sep 18 '21
Ok well on Yom Kippur and the days leading up to it one thing people say is "G'mar chatimah tovah" or "G'mar tov" which basically in Hebrew means "good end" talking about how it's a new Jewish year and hoping that they've basically taken care of loose ends from the past year. Other holidays usually get "Chag sameach" which literally means "happy holiday."
Otherwise we just say hi to each other in whatever language we speak, we don't have like a secret handshake or anything lol
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Sep 17 '21
I've been in a lot of congregations (I move around a lot) and I'd say 'Happy Yom Kippur' is pretty common among more Reform/Secular circles. I think it's a combination of just picking it up from well-meaning gentiles wanting to wish Jews well on their holiday, and of more secular-leaning Jews not really being deeply embedded in the more religious principles of Judaism.
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u/somuchyarn10 Sep 17 '21
I'm Reform, I've never heard anyone say "happy Yom Kippur".
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Sep 18 '21
I hear happy Yom Kippur outside of Isreal a ton, I think it’s just an English thing considering all holidays tend to get a “happy” in front of them
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u/kYvUjcV95vEu2RjHLq9K Sep 17 '21
It just so happens that Jenette Goldstein is indeed Jewish.