Comments on: What I Believe about the Exodus http://coffeeshoprabbi.com/2013/03/12/what-i-believe-about-the-exodus/ Classes for people with questions about Judaism Tue, 14 May 2013 18:07:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: rabbiadar http://coffeeshoprabbi.com/2013/03/12/what-i-believe-about-the-exodus/#comment-5875 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:40:46 +0000 http://coffeeshoprabbi.com/?p=10154#comment-5875 That’s the thing, S, in the private language that my family’s Gaelic turned into after several several generations in a “holler” in TN, the word was “MaHon” and was regarded as such an awful word that my grandmother washed my mouth out with Ivory when I repeated it. She never would tell me what it meant, just that it was filthy. I was only able to unravel the whole story after I met a cousin whose branch of the family had retained the memory that there was an actual man of that name, Major Denis Mahon. Our family was from near Strokestown.

As with a lot of things with memory, things become scrambled, but in their scramble they take on new eloquence.

]]> By: S http://coffeeshoprabbi.com/2013/03/12/what-i-believe-about-the-exodus/#comment-5874 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 18:46:50 +0000 http://coffeeshoprabbi.com/?p=10154#comment-5874 Sorry Rabbi, it’s not “Mahon” a proper name, it’s “mo thon” which means “my tuchus” and is not a swear word, or nearly the rudest term in Gaelic. If you had a boil there you cause use this in the doctor’s office without offending anyone at all.

]]> By: rabbiadar http://coffeeshoprabbi.com/2013/03/12/what-i-believe-about-the-exodus/#comment-5847 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 01:18:22 +0000 http://coffeeshoprabbi.com/?p=10154#comment-5847 Thank YOU! I’ve become a regular reader of your blog and a big fan.

]]> By: Sojourning With Jews http://coffeeshoprabbi.com/2013/03/12/what-i-believe-about-the-exodus/#comment-5832 Wed, 13 Mar 2013 16:36:20 +0000 http://coffeeshoprabbi.com/?p=10154#comment-5832 Wonderfully put Rabbi, thank you!

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