My grandfather, my grandmother

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My grandfather, my grandmother

My grandfather, my grandmother

My grandfather, my grandmother.

("My teacher and father was great in those days, and he was permitted by his father (my grandfather) to make many and extensive corrections" – Vei Ha’amudim, Preface by Rabbi Yitzhak Taib; also: "As (my grandmother), may she rest in peace, used to say: 'May my lot be with those who have cash in hand'..." – Shalom Aleichem, Five and Seventy Thousand; and: "Not like my late grandfather who never counted his coins, for the sages said that blessing dwells only upon what is hidden from the eye" – Agnon, A Guest for the Night, p. 289)

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Expression (Hebrew)

אֲבִי זְקֵנִי, אִמִּי זְקֶנְתִּי, אִמִּי זְקֵנָתִי

Definition (Hebrew)

סַבָּא שֶׁלִּי, סָבְתָא שֶׁלִּי.

("אַבָּא מוֹרִי הָיָה גָּדוֹל בְּאוֹתָן הַיָּמִים, וְגַם הָיָה לוֹ רְשׁוּת מֵאָבִיו (אָבִי זִקְנֵי) לַעֲשׂוֹת הַגָּהוֹת רַבִּים וַעֲצוּמִים" – וִי הָעַמּוּדִים הַקְדָּמוֹת הַקְדָּמַת הַגָּאוֹן בֶּן הַמְּחַבֵּר, ר' יִצְחָק טָיֶבּ; וְכֵן: "כְּמַאֲמָרָהּ שֶׁל (אִמִּי זָקַנְתִּי) עֲלִיָּה הַשָּׁלוֹם: 'יְהִי חֶלְקִי עִם מִי שֶׁהַמְּזֻמָּנִים בְּיָדוֹ'..." – שָׁלוֹם עֲלֵיכֶם / חֲמִשָּׁה וְשִׁבְעִים אֶלֶף, נָד; וְכֵן: "לֹא כְּזִקְנֵי עָלָיו הַשָּׁלוֹם שֶׁלֹּא מָנָה מְעוֹתָיו מֵעוֹלָם, מִפְּנֵי שֶׁאָמְרוּ חֲכָמִים, אֵין הַבְּרָכָה מְצוּיָה אֶלָּא בִּדְבַר הַסָּמוּי מִן הָעַיִן" – עַגְנוֹן / אוֹרֵחַ נָטָה לָלוּן, 289)

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