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Randomex
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(This is probably the the only time I’ll appear in this thread – I don’t believe in ad hominem attacks.)

“The Mighty Powerful and Awesome Patur Aval Assur”

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LOL! For anyone who doesn’t understand, that last line is Aramaic for, essentially, “Have you finished all the praise?”

In the original context, (Brachos 33b*) a man who had added on to the standard formula of ??? ????? ????? ?????? at the beginning of Shmoneh Esrei is being questioned rhetorically if his additions had exhausted Hashem’s praises (i.e. seeing as this cannot be done, one should refrain from any such additions).

In this context, PAA questions, as if out of arrogance, why

cozimjewish did not give him more titles. The humor derives from

both the in-context meaning and what it references.

*I was only familiar with Megilla 25a, but that was enough to get the joke, and I found the version with ?????? on the Hebrew Wikisource.