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I once dated a “Heimishe” girl who described heimish to me as “the best of both worlds”
I thinks she meant, the best of the Litvaks/Yeshivish and the best of the Chasiddim
I wanted to ask her, “so you mean a Heimishe person learns like the yeshivishe and davens, and follows Rebbes, like the Chasiddim.
I think she meant someone in the middle, “chilled out”
I’m not really sure what that means, but, to me Heimish has no clear meaning, usually we describe it as someone who’s in the middle
e.g.: My Uncle describes himself as Heimish; clean shaven, perfect heimishe yiddish, down hat, goes to some Rebbes, eats heimish, has a somewhat Chasiddish Rov, in other words, leans toward Chasiddish without the garb.
Yet he can’t stand Litvaks or Lutvaks as he calls them, and doesn’t much like like hardcore Chasiddim.
So, what is Heimish
Note: people would describe me as Heimish, yet since Heimish has no Spiritual basis I reject that
To me: Yeshivish or Chassidish.
To a Hungarian: a Hungarian. (Even a Hungarian goy, I suspect;)
heimish to me is what you cook in your own kitchen.lol!
I always use it to mean like family/friendly. As in, “we’re all heimish here you don’t need to type so professionally”.
“To a Hungarian: a Hungarian. (Even a Hungarian goy, I suspect;)”
Sounds right.
“Yet he can’t stand Litvaks or Lutvaks as he calls them, and doesn’t much like like hardcore Chasiddim.”
This is how a lot of people describe heimish. Either look at it as the “best of both”, or the “worst of both”. This attitude can lead to people doing whatever they please…
But it means something else to each person. Its not definitive.
people in Bp most who are considered heimish are usually people who in their families the men wear bekeshas but dont wear streimels on shabbos. Usually have some chassidishe leanings but not fully affiliated.
My venture to guess is that it most aptly describes people who are living in the yeshivishe world but are heavily influenced by an eastern european background that was not litvish, someone with great respect for the chassidishe velt and would revere a chassidic rebbe or yeshivishe gadol equally. A family that could describe themselves as heimish would be one where the zeide or even tatte reminisces “in der heim flegt men…”
In every community the people part of that community- are Heimish to each others.
A Chassid considers all Chassidim Heimish. A Litvak considers every Litvak Heimish…etc.
I hate labels
Its really, Beheimish.
Thata boy/girl mytake (by the way are you new to here?). I was actually about to say that a person is not litvish or chassideshe, rather they follow a specific derech. To me, someone who is heimish is a person who feels comfortable with all (and I tend to also mix in the meaning that they are “with it”) but likely follows one (or a slight combination of) derech/derachim
for example I consider myself “heimish” yet I am a chossid of boston chassidus (in particular the rebbe that took over in boston) and follow their derech
my husband says: hameish-beheimish .. (his parents were Hungarish/ Czech/ Romanish)
Yes one could and should be a ben torah.
I believe this whole “label” thing came about due to the fact that a person can’t be without a rov/rebbi/rebbe/mentor so people started describing themselves by who the followed.
gefilte fish.
In Toronto, there is no “heimish” label for people.
And ironically,”The Heimish Bakery” was 100% treife and open on Shabbos.We had to tell all the meshulachim who came to town…
So no one uses Heimish like I do??
Doesn’t heimish mean old fashioned, and warm and friendly.
Yes that is the proper translation of the word
yes, Derech– that’s how I use it, too.
100kilobear? Is that you?
LAer~ are you speaking to me?
No, sorry always here, there was another comment & it disappeared now.
True story:
Someone called my wife for info about a girl, (Just so happens, I knew the caller and the young lady in question as well.)
Basic info, all the relevant details, then she askes, “is she a Heimisher girl?” To which my wife says, “what do you mean by Heimish?”
Caller says, (I kid you not):
“Is she the type to only serve chicken soup on Friday night, or would she serve vegetable soup as well”
And we wonder why we have a shidduch crisis.
People who are not into shtick.
bpt, the soup question is the LEAST of the naarishkeiten!
1day: What do you mean?
chopped liver
baked goods without food coloring…the real stuff.
I used the term on motzei shabbos when I was talking to my best friend about the environment I live in now/ will live in next year. “I don’t anticipate living in a heimishe environment next year because the rare bais yaakov girl who does what I plan on doing typically lives at home while doing it. Also my seminary isn’t so heimishe either, I have to go out every motzei shabbos in order to get pizza with the right hechsher.”
Heimish has multiple meanings depending on the context.
“Heimish-What does it mean to you”
Nothing more than, you enjoy a good kokosh cake.
heimish could either mean “friendly and chilled” or it could mean like half chassidish in my eyes!!
for ex- speak yiddish at home and verry yeshivish and wear gartel but then dont wear streimel and curly peyos..
Heimish means buying cholent in the gas station on Thursday night.
Do you mean hay-mish or high-mish? See what pronunciation is being used, and where the people are from, and then you can try to teitch it up.
MHY thats exactly the point.. theres 2 dif proununciations 4 2 dif meanings.. haymish is the semi chassidishe kind and highmish is like frendly..everyone agree??
MHY
I use both pronunciations. The way I pronounce is depending on how I am using the word. If I am talking about food I would usually say a heimish (haymish) bakery or the food tastes heimish…But if I am talking about a person its almost always heimish (high-mish). Although sometimes I would say don’t make yourself heimish overhere…in the haymish accent. Not sure if this is something others do or not but I do this lol.
It means a frum yid of strong European customs and extraction.
Food from the old country like lahmajin and kibbeh.
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