[Avodah] Money Talks

Zev Sero zev at sero.name
Thu Jan 10 11:07:55 PST 2008


Moshe Y. Gluck wrote:
> I came upon an interesting version of the expression 'money talks' in Divrei
> Emes, Kuntres Ha'anavah V'hayirah 3 by R' Alexander Moshe Lapides (a student
> of R' Yisroel Salanter): "Mi She'yeish Lo Ha'mei'os Yeish Lo Ha'dei'os."
> 
> :-)
> 
> (He calls it "Maamar Ha'olam" but since I don't recall ever seeing it, I'm
> sharing it here.)

He's just translating a very common Yiddish expression: "der vos hot
di mei'eh hot di dei'eh".


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