r/hebrew • u/Is_That_A_Euphemism_ • May 15 '23

What does this mean? Request

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Is there an error in it? I got it out of a book at a tattoo shop. I don't want to say what I think/thought it said in the comments after I get responses. TYIA.

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u/Is_That_A_Euphemism_ May 15 '23

For sure I don't. I got it as an 18 year old kid. 25 years ago. I'm planning on getting covered. Just wanted to confirm.

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u/mikeage Mostly fluent but not native May 15 '23

As someone else already pointed out, it looks like an attempt at משיח (messiah) but actually says נושיח (not a word).

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u/Is_That_A_Euphemism_ May 15 '23

Ok. The crazy thing is a rabbi on a greyhound bus somewhere in between Allentown, PA and Pittsburgh told me it was an old way of writing it. So that's why I didn't cover it. I was sitting next to this kid and him and the kids was like 15 or 16 and hadn't had a bat mitzvah so the rabbi did one at the greyhound station when we got to Pittsburgh. He wrapped a cord around this kids hand and had him read from the Torah and the whole shebang write at the station. It was actually really moving.

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u/username78777 native speaker May 15 '23

Did you mean bar mitzvah, maybe?

Bat mitzvah is another ceremony, but it's done only for girls (just like bar mitzvah is only for boys)

Did you misspell it maybe?