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Pintele Yid

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Pintele Yid, often translated as "Jewish spark", is a Yiddish phrase describing the notion that every Jewish person has an essential core of Jewishness within them, even if they are assimilated or are unaware of their Jewishness. Jewish converts may also be described as having a pintele Yid that led them to Judaism. The term is most commonly used by Ashkenazim and Orthodox Jews.

Etymology

Pintele is a diminutive Yiddish word for "little point" and Yid is a term for a Jewish person, so pintele Yid can be translated literally as "the little point of a Jew". The Hebrew language equivalent of the term is "Nitzotz HaYehudi".

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References

  1. "Krakow wont be the same without its pintele Yid". The Jewish News of Northern California. Retrieved 2023-04-29.
  2. "Rabbi Refoel Levitt, the go-to guy for Orthodox conversion". Intermountain Jewish News. Retrieved 2023-04-29.
  3. "Pintele Yid". Jewish English Lexicon. Retrieved 2023-04-29.
  4. "An Essential Point". The Forward. 25 November 2006. Retrieved 2023-04-29.
  5. "HaNer Tamid in Parashat Tzav". Sefaria. Retrieved 2023-04-29.

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