Abeshter

“Who here calls Hashem the Abeshter?”

Me

“What does it mean?”

Literately it means “highest one” It refers to Hashem, as you seem to have gathered

“Do you call Hashem Hashem sometimes and/or Ribbono she Olam and/or G-d?”
Yes to all

“Does everyone know what you mean when you say Abeshter?

Everyone IVe used it in front of

The Yiddish word Oibeshter means ‘highest one’. Oiben means high up, on top or upstairs. So oibeshter means highest, like oibeshter shtok means top floor of a building. In the Lithuanian or Russian accent, oi becomes ai. So they say it Aibeshter, which is the accent in which that term of referring to Hashem spread around.
Later, the chassidim adopted this expression and mistakenly say Uybishter, as if the original was with a ‘tzere’, instead of Oibeshter. (I suppose Americans should say Oh-bishter to be technically correct.)

I learned from a rebbe who use the term “Ebeshter” (or at least it sounded like an “E” rather than a long “A”….

Others include:

Bashefer = creator
Derbaremdiger = Merciful one
Almechtiger = Almighty one

(though the last too are usually put together w/ God. As in “Almechtiger Gut”

Yekke2, Cheelent! LOL

Tzlil V’Zemer does/did (circa 1985(?)):

Feel the breeze, see the trees, miracles every day
Fields of grain, drops of rain, what are they trying to say?
Aybeshter, oh Aybehster, Aybeshter, oh Aybehster
Won’t You help us realize the miracles that You do.
You created every star and put them all right where they are
You made Heaven and You made Earth and all of your Work is true.
etc.
(Did I remember the words correctly?)

Geordie, Guess we both just dated ourselves…

She dated herself once she said she dated herself, Yekke.

Not afraid to date myself. I was 10 years old in 1985. Our non-Jewish schoolbus driver, Daniel, loved the tzlil v’zemer tapes (see, dated myself again).

Geordie613 – I’m growing more and more curious to know who you are. How many Gateshead born South Africans are there who were 10 years old in 1985 and now live in Manchester? My father lived in Yeoville, my grandparents having gone by ship from Germany years before. They now live in Manchester too.

Someone did that, Winnie. I can’t remember who, but there is an albulm available with a lot of oldies sung nicely with decent music. I think his name was Mendelowitz (the one who features on Rechnitz’s albulms, I can’t recall his name just now).

WtP, He liked them all. We loved how he made up the words to veyatziv venochon.

CTL, You may have met yekke2’s grandparents on your trips to Joburg. Did you ever get to the Adath Jeshurun?

Hah, I may see him before that. Did he drop any hints where he learns? Gateshead only go back tomorrow.

Yes. In the Mir, 1st day Rosh Chodesh, it all starts up again.

Geordie613

Yes I git to Adath Yeshurun. I don’t know if I met Yekke’s grandparents. I was there quite a bit in the late 70s. In fact I was engaged to a girl from Yeoville, her father was a retail jeweler…watchmaker by trade. But they were actually Litvaks arriving in Joburg via England in the 1930s. My friends who I always stayed with lived a good half hour walk from Yeoville and davened at the Kollel in those days, also a long walk. His wife was from CT and he was a native Saffer.

It is very strange, as the last single Ms. CTL is about to announce her engagement to a 20 something young man from South Africa. When we met him recently, a bit of Jewish geography elicited the fact that i had met his grandparents in April 1978 in Rosemont.

LuL, Sorry I wasn’t clear.
Yes, generally yeshivos in EY go back on 1st day and start learning 2nd day Rosh Chodesh. However, in the Mir, where I was zoche to spend two wonderful years, everything kicks off on 1st day Rosh Chodesh, whatever day of the week it is. I remember one year Rosh Chodesh was Friday Shabbos. In Gateshead the zman got going only on the Monday, after everyone travelled up on Sunday. I thought to myself. 10am Monday is 12pm in Mir. The daf (meaning the chabura that learns a daf a day which R’ Noson Zvi ztvk”l passionately promoted) are already deep into daf hey before Gateshead gets started. (I’m not having a go, I’m just saying how it is).

CTL, mazel tov on your impending simcha. That is very interesting to me. I grew up in Yeoville, and we davened in the Adath for a long time, before moving to Rav Sternbuch’s kehilla. The Kollel when you were there, would have been in Urania Street, in Observatory. I’m just too young to remember the founders of the Adath, but I remember and know the next generation of their children. They have largely left now some to EY, many in Manchester and other places. If you look online for the South African Jewish Life magazine archive, there is an article to mark the 80th anniversary of the Adath in the March 2017 issue.

That’s wonderful CTL. Will the tents be rain-proof? and more importantly, are we invited?

WTP………………..
Thank you.
Yes the tents will be rainproof. They also will have floors and be elevated 6″ above ground level to avoid any water problems. We’ve much experience with tents/simchas on our grounds.

Are you invited? As far as I am concerned all my CR friends have an invitation. That said, we all know that Mrs. CTL and the Kallah will make those decisions. It is Poppa’s job to pay and shep nachas.

And for the young ladies asking all the questions about shadcanim and shidduchim. The couple were introduced by mutual friends. This makes all 5 CTL children engaged/married without a professional shadchan. Ms. CTL did not like a single boy the shadchan arranged in Australia, came back to the USA for the spring semester, told Mrs. CTL that she would not be doing anything until the summer break and by March 1 a friend fixed her up, by Pesach we met the boy. His parents are flying in right after Lag B’omer and an early August wedding is in the works….

Hello Geordie613!!

Just saw your response from back then.

I think you’re spot on about who I am. Have you identified me personally or just my family name?

As to my cousin Chaim – I have more than one cousin Chaim. I imagine you are referring to Manchester raised one; I haven’t seen him in a long time. But I will ask him!!

Do we know each other?

Hah, I may see him before that. Did he drop any hints where he learns?
I did learn in Gateshead for a couple of years, I am now in Eretz Yisroel. I have (accidentally) dropped some vague hints about where I learn – and it’s not the Mir.

If I’d be part of this conversation I know the mods would be yelling at me. 😉

If I’d be part of this conversation I know the mods would be yelling at me. 😉

Guilty as charged Joseph, but they are trying to figure out if they know each other, not trying to find out who someone is (in case you were wondering)

Now I’m really feeling left out!

Hey, me too! – 29

I’m unmissable. Yes, that was me. You looked good, by the way.