Good for you, nice for you

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Good for you, nice for you

An exclamatory expression meaning: good for you. Nice for you. It suits you. It fits you.

("How is the commandment of the willow branch carried out? There was a place below Jerusalem called Motza. They would go down there and gather bundles of willow branches from there, and come and stand them up at the sides of the altar... Rabbi Yehuda says: 'Ani va-Hu, save now.' And on that day they would circle the altar seven times. At the time of their departure, what would they say? 'Good for you, altar; nice for you, altar'" - Sukkah 45a, and similarly: "It turns out that this one needs to be guarded from mice. Rabbi Yose said to him: That is good for him, and it should not weaken this one's power" - Bava Batra 10b, and similarly: "And the other kinds of delicacies that a person from civilized society cannot keep his hand away from unless he is an animal, for whom eating straw is good" - Shalom Aleichem / Milk Delicacies, Po, and similarly: "I entrusted the fate of the books to Providence and said: may the Holy One, blessed be He, do with them what is good for Him" - Agnon / Up to Here, 125)

Translation

Expression (Hebrew)

יֹופִי לְךָ, יָפֶה לְךָ

Definition (Hebrew)

בִּיטּוּי קְרִיאָה: טוֹב לְךָ. כֵּיף לְךָ. מַתְאִים לְךָ. הוֹלֵם אוֹתְךָ.

("מִצְוַת עֲרָבָה כֵּיצַד? מָקוֹם הָיָה לְמַטָּה מִירוּשָׁלַיִם וְנִקְרָא מוֹצָא. יוֹרְדִין לְשָׁם וּמְלַקְּטִין מִשָּׁם מֻרְבִּיּוֹת שֶׁל עֲרָבָה, וּבָאִין וְזוֹקְפִין אוֹתָן בְּצִדֵּי הַמִּזְבֵּחַ...רַבִּי יְהוּדָה אוֹמֵר: אֲנִי וָהוּ הוֹשִׁיעָה נָא. וְאוֹתוֹ הַיּוֹם מַקִּיפִין אֶת הַמִּזְבֵּחַ שֶׁבַע פְּעָמִים. בִּשְׁעַת פְּטִירָתָן מָה הֵן אוֹמְרִים יֹפִי לָךְ מִזְבֵּחַ, יֹפִי לְךָ מִזְבֵּחַ"-סֻכָּה מָה ע"א, וְכֵן:"נִמְצָא זֶה צָרִיךְ לִהְיוֹת שׁוֹמֵר שׁוֹבָרוֹ מִן הָעַכְבָּרִים. אָמַר לוֹ רַבִּי יוֹסֵי כָּךְ יָפֶה לוֹ וְלֹא יוּרַע כֹּחוֹ שֶׁל זֶה"- בָּבָא בָּתְרָא י ו, וְכֵן:"וּשְׁאָר מִינֵי מַטְעַמִּים שֶׁאֵין אָדָם מִן הַיִּשּׁוּב מוֹשֵׁךְ יָדוֹ מֵהֶם, אֶלָּא אִם כֵּן בְּהֵמָה הוּא וַאֲכִילַת תֶּבֶן יָפֶה לוֹ"- שָׁלוֹם עֲלֵיכֶם/ מַטְעַמִּים שֶׁל חָלָב, פּוֹ, וְכֵן:"מָסַרְתִּי אֶת גּוֹרַל הַסְּפָרִים בִּידֵי הַהַשְׁגָּחָה וְאָמַרְתִּי יַעֲשֶׂה הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא בָּהֶם מָה שֶׁיָּפֶה לוֹ"- עַגְנוֹן/ עַד הֵנָּה, 125)

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