[Cz-L] Re: "Kimpet"

The way I remember this word being used most often, is people saying:
Deine Haende sind in =B3Kimpet=B2? Your hands are recovering from childbirth?
Meaning: why can=B9t you do it yourself?
Meine Haende sind nicht in =B3Kimpet=B2. There is nothing wrong with my hands,
I can do it myself.

Women were supposed to stay in bed for two weeks after childbirth.

Mimi

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On 6/10/10 1:24 PM, "Paul Heger" <pheger_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi=20
> Hedwig Brenner is perfectly right. I would like only to comment on a "git=
oig,"
> which is really a "schlecht oig" Ain Hara, as she writes. This euphemism =
comes
> from the Talmudic style. A blind man is called "Sagi Naor," which means m=
uch
> light. And when they express something bad on Israel, they use ob the ene=
mies
> of Israel.
> I had wondered of the source of Kimpeturen, until it came to my mind that=
 its
> source is Kindbett. From that came the expression "Sie liegt in Kimpet, a=
nd
> then the Kimpeturen.
> Paul/Pessach Heger
> ,"
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