Surprising Orthodox Jews by Speaking Yiddish
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- Go to buyraycon.com/xiaomanyc for 15% off your order! Brought to you by Raycon. Today I am exploring the Hasidic Jewish neighborhood of Borough Park as everyone prepares for the Jewish festival of Sukkot. Let’s see what Orthodox Jews think about my Yiddish!
Thanks to Reb Noyekh for teaching me Yiddish! If you want to learn with him go to: www.yiddishwithnoyekh.com/
Thanks to my brother Nate ( / sunnysmith613 ) for showing me around!
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0:00 Introduction
0:48 Sponsored by Raycon
2:15 Getting kosher meat
3:59 Buying kosher wine
6:53 Chatting Yiddish on the street
7:53 Buying a lemon for $100 (not clickbait, it's an etrog)
10:56 Visiting a coffee shop
11:38 Hardware store
12:05 Looking at yarmulkes
12:41 Walking down the streets
14:04 Flower shopping in Spanish
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I'll check them out. Also you should learn Swahili! Best wishes.
.. to which charity, though?
$100? They saw you coming. You were the biggest lemon in the store! 🤣
I don't know your Jewish/Hebrew name until today. Arieh Moshe???
@@Jack_Nack No, it’s a special citrus for a special occasion. Like some people pay hundreds of dollars for a big, live tree at Christmas.
I love that he got a scolding straight away for not being religious enough from an elder.
It’s universal
the least he could do is apply the tefillin🤣
Torah observant Jews want the best for all other Jews. It is less a scolding and more “Torah can benefit you the way it’s benefitted me”. I understand that it could often sound like talking down but truly it is not
@@SammyJoon that’s how most religious people are
@@timtim6373 not exactly. Jews actively advise against converting people. When speaking to non-Jews they will only go as far as explaining the basic laws of a moral society i.e. telling them not to curse god, not to worship idols, not to murder/steal, avoid sex crimes like rape incest adultery, no animal cruelty and to establish courts in their society. Jews are mainly interested in teaching less knowledgable Jewish people about their heritage and how to keep the laws of the Torah. The reason for this is simple: if the Torah is truly divine, Jews could really be in deep trouble for not following the laws. That being said, Jews do not force any strangers to do anything and certainly do not decapitate people for disagreeing with them.
@@thewalrider1159 chill Adolph
As a german i understand pretty much everything. Its almost like an german dialect.
It’s just a middle-high German written in a Hebrew script to preserve the old German from what I understand
That’s really cool, technically means Jews and Germans are linked culturally and ethnically
Ja stimmt, hab mich auch gewundert
That's so cool! I'm german and I thought the same thing.
@@anonymoust2877 Culturally, yes, ethnically Ashkenazi Jews mixed primarily Semitic men with Southern Italian women (Sardinians)
I’m a black American and have taught my self a good amount of Yiddish. I can be honest and say I first learned it from the nanny (sitcom) and it intrigued me 💯😁🤷🏿♂️
Lol awesome ❤
me too but i’m italian/mexican! learned some from the nanny too!
that’s amazing ! keep learning
The Nanny still rocks. Love that show.
Im Scandinavian and the Yiddish I know I learned from Fran too!!😂
Being German, I love hearing Yiddish spoken in the wild. Your ears perk up, because it's still so close to the German being spoken today, but uses antiquated vocabulary and it's own, often different expressions. Every Yiddish sentence sounds like German poetry in the moment xD
I specially like Yiddish songs because many singers speak the words out of rhythm and intonation. For example they would pronounce Kartofelsalat in a song: "kaa🎶aar🎵tou🎵uu🎶flsssssa🎶ääeeel🎶ahh-t🎵and it would sound like a shaman conjuring rain in the desert. When they speak it just sounds a bit odd but in a song it really becomes mystic.
@@dennyb6768 What?
try Swiss-German, I think more difficult than Yiddish.
@@fowleheidi482 I had to learn swiss german when i moved to Switzerland. Took me a couple of months to even understand them when they go full swiss mode.
There's a dialect of German spoken by some people in Texas that was basically just passed down from their immigrant forefathers, without changing like regular German did. So modern Germans will hear it and say the same, that it sounds like how their grandparents or great grandparents spoke.
I speak German and apparently just found out today that I also speak Yiddish😮 I knew Yiddish was a German dialect, but I didn't know how close it was. In my estimation it's closer than Pennsylvania Dutch even. I think it would be amazing to get native speakers of Yiddish, German, Texas German, and Pennsylvania Dutch together and see how well they can hold a conversation. I think it would be very surprising how little time it would take for them to be able to functionally communicate with one another.
I like how one of the comments pointed out: Yiddish sounds like a Dutch person trying to speak German.
It makes sense that Yiddish sounds like Pennsylvania Dutch, because both of the originated in the Rhineland area.
@Jack that would be great idea!
I'm currently learning German, and I can definitely hear the similarities!
it's not Jewish, I think it's German Jews who fled from the Nazi regime in Germany to America at that time
I am obsessed with the wild angles your camera gives. I cannot contain my laughter most times 😂
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@@Cabal-ms3kb @7:46
@@Cabal-ms3kb @5:36
@@G1ngerpocalypse One of these should've been the thumbnail tbh
@4:37
It's astonishing how much I understand as a native German speaker. Yiddish is very close to some of our dialects
Geshmak = gut schmecken oder lecker
Ek is afrikaans en kan omtrent alles verstaan😅
@@dreanotto3487 Ik kan jou ook verstaan lijkt veel op Nederlands, Afrikaans is een mooie taal.
As a guy from the Netherlands it all sounds very understandable...
@@mike77gmc ich kann euch auch alle verstehen
I LOVE how Ari mentions potential interest in more practices in his life, then the man offers him to wear the kippah and make the blessing before the food. That was very beautiful and seemed like he directly understood his interests. And with all the joy. Lovely!!
Yes! That’s the heart of the Jewish community. There’s no exclusion, just welcoming.
Never knew Yiddish is that close to German. As a Dutchman I understood a lot.
So next video of Xiaoma can be in German and, because Dutch is close to German, a few weeks later we can expect a video Xiaoma speaking Dutch.
Same. Learned german in school and could always make out some of dutch, didn't know Yiddish was the same,
Yiddish is Middle High German from medieval times with sprinklings of Slavic and Hebrew words.
@@TheDivayenta they were forced to leave and settled in north america pretty early on
I learned a bit of German a while ago, and when I tried to switch to Dutch (because I realized I have Dutch friends, why am I not learning Dutch instead?) my brain couldn't handle the similarity. It's said that Dutch (well, Frisian) is the closest language to English, and supposedly easiest to learn...but I had a far easier time learning German.
I did, however, get very good at pronouncing Scheveningen because my Dutch friends would always make fun of me by making me say it!
Same! Amazing! I didn't know Yiddish was so related to Dutch and German!
"I'm Jewish I've never seen this many jews in my life." Had me laughing so hard.
It's crazy how crowded everything is. Gives me major anxiety. I hate crowds :(
I've seen some but they were in that camp in europe
@@soundofperserverance3363 Booooooo🤢👎
He isn't wrong lmao I thought the same thing
Well he should visit Israel...
As a fellow Jew I’ve been watching your videos and waiting for the day you did Yiddish or Hebrew. I’m so happy.
I would love some day to come to NYC and experience the Jewish community, where I live in Canada the community is so small and exclusive (read: if you don’t have money you’re nobody) and I would love to experience a more welcoming community
wow I'm from Canada too. Not Jewish but try to partake in celebrations if I can. I've always wondered why our community was so small or thought maybe they were very quiet? This life here in this Jewish neighbourhood in NYC is another country altogether! I'd love to experience that and these people.
Yeah, see you're not exactly helping the Jewish reputation when you say the community in Canada thinks you're nobody unless you have money.
@@guytansbariva2295 if you read closely I said where I live in Canada, so that’s a problem with just that small community, I didn’t say ALL Jewish communities in Canada are like that
@@sharonhimmelman9685 Gotcha, sorry I missed that part. But yeah what people have been saying mostly is talking about the very expensive lemon. $100 or so?
But it's no different than going to any cultural market, and they've got the expensive stuff at the back, just like Ari liked to see. Arabic markets have $100 dates, and Korean markets have $100 squid. It's all relative.
Hi sharon. Ur name is german and it emeans heavens man
Hey Xiamoa! Your video inspired me to try to learn to read Yiddish. I speak German and my grandfather was a German jew who fled to NYC during WWII and spoke Yiddish as well, but I never learned it. Turns out it's a lot easier to read than Hebrew because it includes all the vowels like German does! I have a new exciting skill now thanks to you and a much better understanding of the Hebrew alphabet.
I lived with an Israeli family for a little while, and they were the most giving, supportive and charitable people I've ever met. I was down on my luck when I was 18, and they welcomed me with open arms. They said their first rules, as soon as i entered their home were "If you are hungry, you eat. If you are thirsty you drink. If you need anything that you cannot find, you ask." And it feels so amazing to this day, over a decade later, that such a wonderful family helped me get my first apartment, helped me keep my job, and kept me out of trouble. Amazing family
אתה מדבר עברית?
Makes me cry so beautiful 😢
🤣🤣🤣🤣
"If you are hungry, you eat. If you are thirsty, you drink. If you need anything that you cannot find, you ask." That's beautiful. Good rules.
Baruch HaShem. May you continue to be blessed in my life, my friend. Thank you for sharing your story.
This man is a walking translator. Much respect. I’m still trying to learn one other language and it’s not easy for me
Translators usually walk with the person they translate for but ye
@@jonathankraig425 😐
To be honest he doesn’t speak that well.
But i think he understands much.
😂 right he should be working for Star Fleet - translating the next klingon or romulan langauge for when aliens appear lol
I love how less surprised they all are and how fast word travels about how he speaks it really well
Aweee Ari & his brother are both so nice, just good souls honestly. Hope to see more content with the two of you❤️
I’m kvelling! It was an honor to teach you Yiddish, Ahrele Moishe!
Oy vey
@@soundofperserverance3363 haha oy vey iz mir!
@@rebnoyekh work will set you free
@@soundofperserverance3363 actually speaking yiddish and learning about beautiful Jewish culture will ;)
@@rebnoyekh ⚡⚡
“Just search white guy speaks Chinese on TH-cam.” I laughed way too hard at that 😂
Not wrong though 😂
Lmaoo was just about to comment ahah
he has the youtube algorithm wrapped round his finger at this point lmao
There's a guy on the street in one of his other videos that addressed him literally as that "see you later 'white guy speaks Chinese!' “ 😂
That’s actually how he titled his videos
It's always so funny and interesting to me (as a German) how much Yiddish I can actually understand. Stuff like "a bissl" ( a bit ) is also very much how southern Germans/Swabians speak, where I am from.
By the way, how come your brother is so well versed in the Jewish community and you not as much? Were you brought up differently or what is the reason?
maybe he met his wife or something and he decided to be more religious
@@caroline5573 definitely could be the case. It's just very interesting to me. :)
I’ve been learning German for a few months and I recognized words like danke and fleish
@@CornholioPuppetMaster That is very cool. The language is not easy to master. A lot of Germans struggle with it too, haha. May I ask what made you learn German? You forgot the C in "Fleisch" by the way :) But that's an easy mistake because it's pronounced like the English "sh", so don't worry.
@@Drumming_Monkey My wife is half German. She hates it when I translate Fleischküchle to "flesh cakes". Even though it's 100% accurate :D
Her mother is Schwabish, so Fleischküchle is just meat. Not the pastry covered version from the Black Sea area.
Xiaoman, I would love to see a video of you learning a very special (to me) Russian dialect. Doukhobor Russian is a combination of English and Russian and is only spoken in a few towns in Canada and the USA. I am a descendant of Doukhobors, and with there only being 30,000 left here in Canada, only 50% can speak Doukhobor and its sad that in 100 years it wont exist at all. Thank you for all the good vibes and awesome content :D Huge Fan Right Here!!
It's amazing how quickly you pick up on these different languages. Very impressive and very entertaining as always!
1) When you enjoy something you learn extremly fast 2) His brain is used to learn new language so he adapts to a new language really really fast
@@ReloGP14th You make a great point.
hes jewish,,,he should have known this since 5
@@gacy90 I'm Jewish, I live in Israel, my mom and grandparents were speaking Yiddish and I don't understand almost any of it, just funny slang that you can hear on Seinfeld 😂 None of my friends knows this language. Bravo to Xiaoma, for being so passionate about learning languages and connecting with people.
Once you learn a second language, picking up another one is always just a little easier. But it should never be as easy as this man makes it happen 😂😂😂😂 he's a very special person in that regard.
this was an amazing video! I used to take care of 2 sweet boys for a little over 6 years who were autistic and lived in a relatively strong Jewish household. they would have me over for holidays and cook delicious foods and bread. but the most precious moment was when one of the boys held my newborn for the first time. he recited the Shehecheyanu prayer, which most Jewish people do for their first time experiencing something new, and it made me cry. it was a sweet moment. the Jewish culture has always piqued my interest, so this was a nice to watch.
That’s beautiful
* Piqued....not peeked.
@@deirdrekiely6187 not to be that person but OP was right with the piqued
@@erinslays OP was not right. OP edited their comment after they were corrected. So yeah, you were that guy
@@erinslays you look the teeny tiny little hats??
My Jewish grandmother shared a bedroom with my sister and I for years. She would speak Yiddish and had started teaching me as a teenager. Your video brought back many memories.
You get such honesty by speaking to all these different people in their language. Such a good perspective on human nature in general. Thank me man.
Thank *YOU man lol
you can edit comments 😊
As an english & german speaker with some dutch, Yiddish feels like the language part of my brain just melting together with a bit of flair. Very interesting sounding language
same here, i always knew yiddish was a think but never actually clicked how much sense it makes when I hear it?
Yiddish is so fascinating. It’s really a melting-pot kinda creole language. Yiddish and Modern German both diverged from Middle High German in the 11th and 12th centuries, if I’m not mistaken. All things considered, they’ve had very little time to diverge, and until 100 years ago, very little space to diverge. Their pronunciations are noticeably different, and Modern German uses prefixes, suffixes, and single-word conjugations more than Yiddish does, but the smaller words and root words and nearly identical. Yiddish incorporates a lot of Hebrew, as well as influences from Polish and Russian in some dialects. But anyone who speaks German today should be able to understand Yiddish. They’re not perfectly mutually comprehensible, but you’ll get the gist for sure
The sound of the Yiddish varies by the speaker's accent. Brooklyn "Yeshivish-style" Yiddish (in this video) is very distinct and sounds different than the European Yiddish that European-born Jews from the older, now-geriatric, generation speak.
I'm swedish that understands german and some dutch, this was definitely some hybrid thing. Sounded odd but very interesting and fascinating.
@@YOLOnyc If I can make one correction to an otherwise great point, “Yeshiva-style” Yiddish would actually be spoken by non-Hasidic ultra Orthodox Jews, mostly of Lithuanian descent. Hasidic Yiddish is what was spoken in this video. There is a radical vowel shift between “Yeshivish” Yiddish, which is unfortunately dying very quickly, and Hasidic Yiddish.
The fact that so many different cultures you visit have people who recognize you says a lot. You are making a difference in history. You help bridge cultural differences. You inspire many people, myself included to try harder to learn other languages and not be shy about approaching
First video he didn't get anything free
Lol jk jk
I always enjoy your videos and the sense of community they impart, especially when others realize you’ve taken the time to learn their language. I’m inspired to go back and learn German again, I had to drop it in college and always regretted that! Cheers. ❤
Loved these reactions. Perfect time for these videos, the world needs it!
Also love the facts on Judaism thrown in, I'm learning! 🧐
massive massive respect for donating the proceeds in accordance with the tradition of the holiday
Your username fits you.
Keep being cool, drippy rat. Respect!
Exactly,much respect for doing that. ❤️🕊️
I think this is one of the most interesting videos you’ve done. Yiddish may be a major language in that community, but it’s also a dying language outside of it. My grandparents spoke Yiddish, their parents spoke Yiddish, but it wasn’t really passed on to my parents or my generation. Definitely a fascinating choice. Also good to show this community in a more positive light to a larger audience.
Looking forward to part 2.
as long as there are Orthodox Ashkenazi, I don't see it disappearing. So that's good.
It’s funny I was told it was dying growing up, but it’s flourishing in Israel and the US in the Hasidic and Ultraorthodx communities. What’s sadly dying is the Judeo-Arabic, Judeo-Maaylan, etc. The Hebrew and other languages for the non European communities
same, all of my grandparents spoke it and didn’t pass it on so they could talk without the kinderlach understanding🫠
My dad's grandfather was Jewish and grew up speaking Yiddish at home with his parents, who were immigrants from Belarus and Ukraine. But he and his siblings didn't pass Yiddish down to their kids, in an effort to assimilate and be more American. I always think it's a tragedy when a culture is lost that way, and I hope younger generations of secular Jews will be interested in reconnecting with Yiddish. I definitely want to learn.
The reintroduction of Hebrew seemed to replace Yiddish for the most part.
You bring together people with your good heart . Thank you ,mire men like you are needed today.
Thanks for the walk. The Jewish Community in NY is very interesting!!! And your brother apparently is a legend there! :D
I’m Jewish and speak Hebrew, honestly I thought Yiddish would be more similar to Hebrew and it actually wasn’t, it was very interesting to hear this language!!! :)
It's mainly German, so if you learn the vowel-shifts and pronunciation, you can understand quite a lot in Yiddish if you speak German. I can understand maybe 80% of what I hear in Yiddish.
Incidentally, a lot of non-Jewish people had some Yiddish in the old days. Even people who didn't speak German sometimes had some. One famous example is former Secretary of Defense Colin Powell.
I thought the same thing!!
הוא צריך לדעת עברית היוטיובר הזה
It’s basically like German Creole with Hebrew words thrown in & written in Hebrew script. Edit: I forgot to mention there are a few Slavic words thrown in too.
@@divemylollol6152 הוא יודע קצת.
As a German, this was very satisfying. It's always so much more engaging when you even understand without subtitles.
I hope Xiaoma reboots his German project. It would be fun to see how he connects German, Yiddish and Durch together.
many german words also come from the yiddish originally. Tohuwabohu, Ganove, meschugge, it's pretty awesome how the 2 languages are woven together.
@@hanshansomahammau And Kosher :)
@@hanshansomahammau and many terms for money.
@@hanshansomahammau meshuga and ganuv is from hebrew
Glad to see you made it to my old neighborhood! It's changed in many ways since I moved away 20 years ago, but it's nice to see how much stayed the same.
love this video
It’s amazing to be able to delve into a different culture or religion through Xiamoa/Arie’s videos. And to see how he can interact with others can be very intriguing and also heartwarming.
it is a culture that treats women like 2nd class citizens
@@coloradotrader7202 and what’s your basis for that statement? Let me guess. You watched “unorthodox” on Netflix and now you think you understand hassidic culture?
@@coloradotrader7202 islam?
@@coloradotrader7202 Why are you acting like your culture didn't do that during the 60s? In fact, if you're conservative, you should agree with the culture you hate so much
@@vercot7000 I never said I hated anything, I was just stating a fact. dont get butt hurt bozo
The smile on some of the people you interact with their mother tongue is beyond any earthly descriptions… it makes me feel really happy too
Thank you for showing us what is sometimes misunderstood in the community, it was very informative. You have inspired me to learn languages... and so starts a difficult journey for me.
My dad actually understands Yiddish. It’s wild because he’s an old Californian surfer but his roots are New York Jew. Every now and then the Brooklyn accent and Jewish storytelling humor will come out and it’s like a different person 😂
I like that your brother said as an example "if you're gonna honk your horn at somebody in traffic think twice" then the video proceeds with plenty horn honking. So funny.
The drivers honking were probably not Jewish?!?
@@DonVideoGuy007 they’re still human and are not perfect. C’mon dude, a “reminder.” I’m sure you’ve missed your alarm a few times in your life, but you still set it. We are not robots and rigid in our convictions, even if at times we should be. The reminders we place on ourselves to improve our behavior are helpful tools.
A friend of mine was an Orthodox Jew who was a farmer and knew Yiddish. One day at a farmer’s market several Russian emigre women were insulting him in Yiddish assuming he didn’t know what they were saying. You should have seen their faces when he told them “that’s not very nice” in their own language.
What the hell were they saying about your friend?!
@@NYC_Goody as I recall they were insinuating that he was stupid and so would be easy to con into a lower price.
@@charlescurran1289 Typical
Xiaoma changed my mind about learning many languages, it is very useful and you meet more interesting and lovely people everytime.
This was a great learning experience to help understand the culture. And the reactions never get old lol
Holy moly, a foreigner in your own hood. I feel you. Like my first visit to Japan, the homeland, surrounded by Japanese. Ha! Oddly, I took German in high school so I understood more Yiddish than I do in Japanese.
Man i have somehow literally never met anyone of japanese ancestry here in north america.
@@thorodinson6649 Very common on the West Coast. LA SF etc. Whole communities.
@@shrayesraman5192 Vancouver Canada there are plenty
Where fr do u live bro
日本語は少し話します。でも。。。まだまだです。
I knew Yiddish is very similar to German, but hearing it being actually spoken is crazy!
It feels epic being able to understand it without tons of effort, haha!
Thank you for the video!
I mean it's basically German.
Which is crazy because it split from High German over a thousand years ago.
@@jaredf6205 Yiddish evolved alongside other German dialects through the centuries. It isn't that different to modern German, and very different to Old High German.
As an only English speaker, I'm amazed at literally any language you speak and glad there are subtitles to go along with it 👍
Super great video apart from the NFT reference at the end... It's so nice to see more videos in the last couple of years of the very much unique world of chasidic judaism! We have something like this in London, but on a MUCH MUCH MUCH smaller level!
It's truly remarkable how much this sounds like a middle ground between Dutch and German. I'm Dutch myself and also speak German, after seeing this, i will definitely take up some yiddish courses.
because its yiddish and not hebrew language
thats antisemitic unless you're jewish
@@andyrobin7196 How?
@@LaFlaneuse0 cultural appropriation
@@andyrobin7196 as a jewish person, no it isn't lol
cool to be seeing more interactions with the Hasidic community since many of the people within are often worried that anyone with a camera is coming into their neighborhoods to criticize them in some way. Seems like in recent years especially there are more people even within the Hasidic community using TH-cam to share the culture, which I think is fascinating. Time after time ari shows that choosing to speak someone else’s language is something that is warmly received and appreciated across cultures ❤
Yeah I watched a documentary and the hasidics refused to mention women because theres apparently a big abuse problem.
Eh, their culture is toxic, I don’t think we should be pretending that an ancient religious way of living is somehow pure or beautiful. It’s primitive and full of shit speaking from first hand experience
These are Orthodox Jews, not Hasidic.
@@GoBlueHTB I think Orthodox is kind of an umbrella term that could include many orthodox groups. If you’re Jewish, please educate me if I’m wrong.
@@christophershirley3279 Orthodox means traditional, aka not Reform or Conservative. Inside Orthodox Jews there are Modern Orthodox (also Religious Zionists in Israel) and Haredim (what some people call Ultra-Orthodox). And inside the last group, there are Sephardic and Ashkenazi (wich also exist inside the other communities), and inside the Ashkenazi community there are Hasidic Jews and Misnagdim (opponents of Hasidism). Sorry if its too complicated, but Hasidic Jews are only a part of Orthodox Jews.
Really love this video man. I show my English students some of your videos sometimes. This one is a real banger. Nice one!
I had no idea that it’s that similar to German. I knew about the connection to the German langue but very interesting to actually hear and understand it.
I was just talking to my mother (in my sukkah, funnily enough!) about Yiddish and my daughter as asked to hear it more and then here you are! I loved seeing Borough Park-I miss being down there more! What a wonderful way to kick off the new year and Sukkot! Can’t wait for part 2! Chag Sameach!
Living in Southern California I think I missed out with not living in this kind of community
Hello maym please🙏 help😭 me
Finally you’re covering Yiddish! Danken God! Your Jewish viewers were wondering when you’re going to cover it 😊
It's danken Gott.
Great video! I like how he's brother talking about the yamaka and giving the example of honking, and a minute later there is a lot of honking
I'm German from Frankfurt from a mixed faith family. My great grandmother still spoke Yiddish. Once I was in London and ended up in an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood and came across three men speaking it, so I addressed them accordingly. The looks on their faces was priceless.
I love that you returned to your roots, Xiaoma. I spend so much time in other cultures that I appreciate so much when I am surrounded by my Mexican culture and people. It really makes it all special.
Hell yea man!
I love how immediately the conversation starts about your lineage, it keeps the story going, always sharing from where your ancestors travelled and when, I love it 🥰
This was a cool video to watch because even though I've learned Hebrew, I could understand the Yiddish thanks to the German I've studied!!😆😂🤣 LOL! It's great that you have such a love for languages! I enjoy watching these videos, and it will keep me learning more as well! Baruch Hashem!
I have never paid attention to Yiddish till this video, but it's crazy how so many words sound German. It's like I understood it to a degree without knowing the language.
Haha, Yiddish is like a time travel to late medieval German and also a bunch of Hebrew and Slavic words. As a German, I can understand approximately 80 % of those sentences. But I am quite good in understanding dialects and also know a little bit Russian, so it´s easier for me. Greets from GER, U.
But I can speak Hebrew, and I don't understand Yiddish at all 🥲
The wife and I will have to check this neighborhood out next time we go to New York !
@@dankelly5150 don’t forget crown heights! this year is prob gonna be more packed lol
I can't get over "De Fleisch ist geschmack"
@@ireadysucks3026 CH speaks the least yiddish, Williamsburg the most and Borough Park comes in at second place.
"Buy a yamaka, speak Yiddish, you're one of ours." How freaking wholesome is that?!
He is Jewish, so it is not that strange that they say that 🙃
@@Ordo1980 Some groups of people have the “if you weren’t born and lived it, you’re not it” mentality. I’m just glad he’s welcoming of it. :)
@@Diablochild123 Usually orthodox Jews have that belief, that no jew can leave completely the religion, because it is like something what you inherit as a jew. So they think that everybody can come back, they just have to practice it again. So they see somebody like Arieh as a potential returnee.
@@Ordo1980 ye kind of. Your born Jewish, and that’s that. A non-Jew cannot turn around one day and say “I believe in Hashem (G-d)” and be Jewish. That’s why even myself I’m not religious at all, but if I went to that neighbourhood and told them my name (which is very Jewish) they would take me in no doubt in my mind.
@@Ordo1980 Yes he is born Jewish but is a secular Jew and these gentlemen in the video are religious Jews. We all are from Adam, thats what really matters.
All of your videos remind us that shared humanity brings us together and that unshared language keeps us apart.
Xiaomanyc is legit one of, if not the best, TH-camr ever. The guy speaks multiple languages, travels the world and speaks to everyone and breaks barriers most could only dream of. Seriously deserves a humanitarian award!!
I found out I was Jewish through some ancestor tracing recently, my family had no idea and I know nothing about the ethnicity or religion, thank you for this ❤
Welcome... If you are in the big city you could check out some of the Jewish delicatessens.
@@jaybloomfield5082 i worked at Carnegie deli in nyc for 2 years 😭
@@brianakelley123 they’re not kosher. JS
Never realized you were Jewish! Shalom brotha!! Great video as always
Never new YOU were Jewish either…shalom אחי 😁😁😁 it’s a small world we live in.
@@mikewizowski441 I never knew you were Jewish as well. It really is a small world after all. Shalom!
Shalom!
Hello sir🙏 please help me😭
You blind bro ? 😂
I love that I am suddenly on the Orthodox Jewish side of the internet. First with the Miami Boys Choir on TikTok and now this. I'm learning a lot!
I knew you were rooted with the Jewish nation!!! Good for you braving the streets of NY on Erev Sukkos!
My mother grew up in Midwood, and I always felt uncomfortable visiting those areas in Brooklyn. As a very reformed NY Jewish guy, there were moments where I felt noticeably out of place. However, I will always go back for delicious mandel bread and other Jewish baked goods.
Xiaoma feels like a protestant walking through a Greek Orthodox festival.
looooooool
except judaism is an ethnicity
Love the “running” part of your ad for the earbuds 😂😂😂 just a quick jog past the screen lmao
this was so funny and informative 😂
Finally a video with a language I speak! Gives me some insight into how well you're speaking the other languages (besides Mandarin). For 2-3 weeks this is really great! For future reference, most American Hasidim speak the Hungarian dialect (or the very similar Polish dialect) which differs in pronunciation from the Lithuanian dialect used in more 'academic' circles. But you clearly made yourself understood- shkoyach!
I think he was saying 2-3 weeks and meant 2-3 hours based on what his friend kept saying, along with the interaction with that one man by the car (who had groceries).
Tajt siker vagy haver, vagy csak mesüge? Kukkold már meg! Nem látod, hogy kasa a szajré, nem tré? Mázlink volt, ne majrézz!
If you can get around Hungarian orthography you can understand some of this sentence intentionally replete with jiddis words :D
He did a weird mixture of the dialects. For instance, he called his friend his brider instead of his bruder, so there was some galitzianer.
American hassidim are the biggest American Yiddish speaking community
What people don’t realize is that in the old days you could’ve been Jewish from practically anywhere in any country in Europe (except where they spoke Ladino) and yet Yiddish was the unifying language that everyone understood.
And Yiddish and Ladino speakers would use Biblical Hebrew to communicate with each other when they met.
@@rlt9492 Which is the actual unifying language.
Actually, the were Judeo versions of many other languages too, Yiddish (Judeo Middle-High German) is the only surviving one but there was Judeo Italian, Judeo French, etc. Ladino (Judeo Spanish) is a novel language at this point used mostly in music, very few people speak it as their primary language these days.
Do they speak Yiddish in Israel?
@@rlt9492 Not Biblical Hebrew. Medieval Hebrew.
You speak really good Yiddish. I'm ( GERMAN-JEWISH) too and I can speak some Yiddish but I was born and raised in America. So I can only speak fluently. But you do a great job and you speak so fluently I like that
Used to spend so much time around the Hasidic area in Brooklyn. Around the end of Neptune ave, in Sea Gate.
I really enjoyed this video. I've always been fascinated by the Jewish culture and, growing up in NYC, I love the Jewish people and enjoyed celebrating many of the holidays with our family friends. Looking forward to part 2, Ari. Your brother's a bit of a rockstar :)
I'm part Ashkenazi Jewish on my mom's side of the family and I'm happy to see a new video like this :)
1:38 The “run” that stops at end of frame 🤌💋 😂😂😂
Wow, I wasn't aware about the etrog thing and how important it is that they're flawless. They're even examining them with magnifiers like one would examine gemstones. Very interesting.
One thing I like about your videos it is that we can experience other cultures, learn about them, get to know the people, and much more. I love NY with such a cultural diversity.
Man, that camera is a trip! I've never done acid, but I suspect the experience may be similar.
I always enjoy the interactions. I wish I'd started learning languages way earlier in life. My brain won't hold new info very well any more.
If I ever freed a mythical Jinn, one of my wishes would be to speak, understand, read and write any language known to man. You could go anywhere, anywhen, and talk to anyone about anything.
That mythical Jinn would somehow find a way to mess up your wish, they always do 😂 But that would make a heck of a good storyline!
I enjoy mushrooms, and it reminds me of when they are hitting a little too hard in public.
The flip phone he’s holding at 15:18 is such a throwback to when the Motorola razor flip phone was the hottest and latest phone on the market for the year! ❤
I have a story..when we were emigrating to the US my father spoke Yiddish and we were refugees from the Soviet Union in Austria and he was able to communicate to everyone without too many issues. This one is not fair..you had help and insight..
Helped a Jewish family move out and my God, they had soooo many books. The have a whole wall filled with them. It was it was a pain to pack them but it was interesting lol. Their family was huge and they had made a custom table to fit like 30 or more in one table for events. It was cool lol
Wouldn’t be surprised if you helped move the family prayer book, moms book, dads book, grandpas book, the kids books, the book they got as a gift for donating to the synagogue, the book they got from volunteering at the community vegetable garden, the special High Holy Days book, kids storybooks about virtue, and three copies of Chicken Soup for the Soul. And I’d bet they had a kids table too!
Right! Like get a life lol
jews in general are some of the biggest book lovers ever.
The extra touch with the text bubbles was very insightful and made the video more interesting. You effort doesn't go unnoticed!
This guy is amazing,I only can't believe him when he says that he has been learning for only a few weeks
I was curious so I looked up the lemon in Jewish community and it's meaning to the culture. Seeing all these flawless lemons made me wonder what was going on here. There is actually an interesting history behind this and I'm glad I ran across it on your video.
While I love the reactions in your other videos, I found myself pausing to read the notes and enjoying this more as I'm learning about another culture.
same
I did too.
Dude, this was SUPER informative! Please start doing more annotations, if you can! Thanks!
Thank u for showing me this experience. I’m blown away.
I love how your brother said about thinking twice before you honk your horn in traffic then you go outside and all you can hear is a horn. Lmao love your channel.
Great video! Was waiting for this video ever since i found out u were Jewish awhile back when u said it in one of ur videos. I myself grew up as a religious orthodox Jew in NY (not as a chasidish Jew) and it’s nice to see someone shine some light on the chasidish community especially since there is a huge increase in anti-semitism in those neighborhoods.
I heard my Grandma speak Yiddish as a kid. God Bless Her that she spoke 4 languages.
bro i liked your video and then i tried to like it again because it was so nice
Man…the channel name, the video title 👌 compliments to the chef
Learning a new language is such a struggle for me. That’s such an amazing gift Xiaoma has. It’s awesome to see true peace across so many cultures.
Seriously. It takes me years to process a basic understanding of another language
The time he had his brain scanned, the neurologist thinks he has bilateral language, meaning that he can process and develop language in both hemispheres of his brain, which is uncommon in men. This might explain partly why he can learn and retain so many languages.
I think it helps if you have a photographic memory
RIGHT??? Wouldn''t it be so very cool to be able to chat with EVERYONE????
Learn about Comprensible Input. It is basically learning a language like a native baby would. With that, little by little u acquire a language until u speak n understand it quite well. Don't give up, I know u can achieve what u set ur mind to. We are lucky to be able to watch this YT channel, it is honestly an inspiration to everyone.
Xioma, thank you for showing us all of these different cultures and showing appreciation for them in such a positive light. These videos never fail to make me laugh, smile, and appreciate thing a little more.
I just enjoy, watching, learning, observation, it's neat....🎉