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  • #604856
    blackhatwannabe
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    What does it mean to be “shpitz” for a guy? What does the term “shpitz yeshivish” mean?

    #896660
    WIY
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    thanks

    #896661
    sam4321
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    tip,or top of ,like shpitz yeshivish = very yeshivish. Hard to explain but means top of the line.

    #896662
    interjection
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    it means cool. usually that he spends all day in the bais but dresses to the nines.

    #896663
    WIY
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    I second sam

    Shpitz means to the utmost extent an embodiment of the thing totally it.

    #896664
    Curiosity
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    I always suspected it comes from the Hebrew word “Shpeetz” – meaning the sharp corner point of a needle or blade. The apex, if you will.

    #896665

    @Curiosity – that isn’t a Hebrew word, it’s a German/Yiddish word.

    #896666

    Are you sure you don’t mean spetz? Its to know a lot of something ussually perfectly….

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    #896667
    Toi
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    shpitz is a yiidish word. it means the point, as in the point of a nail. shpitzy means pointy; in yiddish its shpitzig. it is used in the vernacular to mean the pinnacle of something. so shpitz yeshivish means the pinnacle of yeshivish. but its not reall the teich. i heard a RY make a machaah on “shpitzig’ shich”, the ones commonly worn by yeshiva bochurim.

    #896668
    Curiosity
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    I guess that’s why I couldn’t find it in the Hebrew-English dictionary I was using.. It’s made its way into modern Hebrew so seamlessly that I honestly thought it had Hebrew roots. It’s surely listed in newer Hebrew dictionaries.

    #896669
    The_Cool_Jew
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    Shpitz = typical

    #896670
    YehudahTzvi
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    Shpitz in German means a high point like the top of a mountain. I know this because it is my family name.

    #896671
    equeen
    Member

    OK…so can someone tell me why a SHPITZEL is called a SHPITZEL As in the ultra orthodox holier than thou head covering?

    #896672
    YehudahTzvi
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    Again, probably because it’s on top (high point) of the head.

    #896673
    Toi
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    maybe cuz its pointy like a football.

    #896674
    smartcookie
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    A shpitzel covers the whole head- with not Sheitel underneath.

    A hat is supposed to cover a big part of the sheitel- so only the front and back should be seen. The style now- where the hat barely lies on top of the head, defeats the purpose of wearing one.

    #896675
    uneeq
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    In Chevron Yeshiva, they call the top notch learners, “shpitz”. This usually amounts to like 3-5 guys out of 1200 students.

    #896676
    Showjoe
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    shpitz means (i think) the epitome

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