Posted on 04/08/2018 8:17:57 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
Chutzpah is a Yiddish word meaning gall, brazen nerve, effrontery, sheer guts and arrogance.
It's Yiddish and, as Leo Rosten writes, "No other word and no other language can do it justice."
Read the story below and you will understand.
A little old lady sold pretzels on a mid-town street corner for 25 cents each. Every day a young man would leave his office building at lunch time and as he passed the pretzel stand, he would leave her a quarter, but never take a pretzel.
This went on for more than three years. The two of them never spoke.
One day, as the young man passed the old lady's stand and left his usual quarter, the pretzel lady spoke to him.
Without blinking an eye she said:
"They're 35 cents now."
My favorite example of chutzpah is the young boy who murders his parents in cold blood, then throws himself on the mercy of the court on the grounds that he’s an orphan.
That was my favorite pretzel story ever.
A little old lady gets onto a crowded bus and stands in front of a seated young girl. Holding her hand to her chest, she says to the girl, “If you knew what I have, you would give me your seat.” The girl gets up and gives up the seat. The girl then takes out a fan and fans herself. The woman looks up and says, “If you knew what I have, you would give me that fan.” The girl gives her the fan. Fifteen minutes later the woman gets up and says to the bus driver, “Stop, I want to get off here.” The bus driver tells her he has to drop her at the next corner, not in the middle of the block. Her hand across her chest, she tells the driver, “If you knew what I have, you would let me out here.” The bus driver pulls over and opens the door to let her out. As she’s walking out of the bus, he asks, “Madam, what is it you have? “ “Chutzpah,” she replies
My favorite example of Chutzpah: Hillary Clinton runs for President.
A nice Jewish grandmother was walking along the beach with her little grandson when a huge wave came in and took the child out to sea.
The grandmother, devastated, wept and prayed and asked God to please give her back her grandson. Another wave came in and lo and behold, the young boy was plopped onto the beach.
The grandmother looked to heaven and said, “Ummm, he was wearing a hat.”
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If it made you smile even a little bit, then it was worth it.
Didn’t a set of twins out in Kalifornia got away with that?
And the Texas teen who killed 4 while people driving intoxicated, underage who pleaded wealth and privilege. served less than a year per death.
And then travels the world blaming everyone but herself for that loss. 8>)
Chutzpah defined, eh?
Chutzpah is this ...
Pastor mourns lost child, aborted 22 years ago
Pastor Shane Idleman describes losing a child to abortion.
That’s like the Menendez brothers saying,
“We lost our parents to murder.”
Doubly irritating is that the blog often posts hooey.
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No value add to YOU, maybe. But thank God you don’t speak for Free Republic! Oldpuppymax
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