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I was reading Hamodia and the name Gitty stood out.  I have never met a Jew named Gitty.  I wanted to know about it, made a mental not and forgot about it till I looked up Psalm 84:10 just now about being a door keeper in the house of the Lord.

So, amazingly this person name Obededom (means servant of edom) kept the ark and was blessed in 2 Samuel 6.  But you see, this may be the same person in 1 Chronicles 15:1 who was a door keeper not just to the house of the Lord but to the ark.  He also is listed as a harp player if I remember correctly.

This was after 70,000 people died from looking into the ark after they got it back from the philistines who put it on an ox cart as a sign that God was real.  They wanted to see if the oxen took it to where it needed to go.  They also make 5 gold rats and 5 tumors as a peace offering after they had God's wrath on them.  

But anyway, to make a long story short, Gittite means from Gath.  Gath means wine press.  Strongs says Gittite can mean a person who plays music in the notes.  This calls to my mind a happy grape harvest song.

So was the Hasidisha person named Gitty in Hamodia a man or  a woman?  Is it Yidish or does it mean the Hebrew from Gath?

1) When I looked it up I found out the gittel is a Yidish word for good.  So, I am assumeing that if someone is named gitty it is probably a hassidic Jew and short for Gittel.

2) As to the Bible searches, gittah hepher came up for the litteral place name in Israel, but I doubt that that is why there are satmars walking around with the name Gitty.

3) The Jewish baby name book says Gittah means gift and I have no idea as to this third possible meaning where it comes from.

4) Urban wicktionary says gitty is a) a 7 legget horse,something that comes up odd or b) feeling happy silly, you know, like in the vernacular.

You read Hamodia? Wow! I didn't know that anyone but very Orthodox Jews read that newspaper (I do, BTW).





It's quite a common name and, as you mention in your next post, is short for Gittel (a Yiddish name). Many Orthodox Jews have this habit of giving their children a Hebrew or Yiddish name and then calling them by a contraction (or sometimes a lengthening) of that name, usually with an "ie" or "eleh" at the end. For example, Gittie for Gittel, Yehudeleh for Yehudah, Shlomoleh for Shlomo, Moishie for Moshe, Yitzie for Yitzchak, and so on.

More than even read Hamodia, I would even like to hang around Govoha Beis Medrash in Lakewood, but the little snooping around town seems to get me in enough exitement as it is.

I always thougth Orthodox Jews should put out adds in local papers in heavily Jewish areas so that nonjews have some idea what is going on with holidays like Purim or whatever.  You know, to avoid missunderstandings.  Then you could put a web site for more.

Actually, that is an interesting point. Everyone knows about Rosh Hashanah
and Yom Kippur, but your would not believe how many meetings, CE,
and other events get scheduled on Jewish holidays that keep us from
attending them...the public knows to not schedule things on RH and YK,
but doesn't have a clue to the rest of the days.

Goood Point Sheitle\

Rounding this though out more, one time a guy walks up to me and says can you light my cigaret.  If I didn't know about Jews or realized it was Shabat I would have wondered what was wrong with the guy.  Now take that incident and multiply it by millions of people in NYC and even people just off the boat who could get into trouble not knowing what's going on with Jews.

And you did what for him by lighting his cigarette? You should've said, "I don't care if it's Shabbat or just a ha-bat [habit]. I'm not going to let you smoke yourself to death." My grandmother has emphysema because she smoked for the greater part of her life.

Are  you sure the guy just didn't have a match to light his own cigarette?

Smoking is prohibited on shabbas, no matter who lights it.

While smoking is permitted on yom tov, you can only light off an
existing source.

And the concept of shabbas goy, while greatly exaggerated,
would not apply here-I couldn't go ask a non-Jew to light my
cigarette ( if I smoked) on yom tov.

Off topic

Unlike you I would not call the "Messianis Jews" "cult".
Unlike "Judeo-Pagans","Judeo-Buddhist" or similar groups they do not practise some heterodox Judaism, but rather ordinary (fundamentalist) Christianity.
And Christianity is no (Jewish) "cult" but a completely different faith !

To Sheitle-

The guy had a Russian accent and Yalmuka as I recall so maybe he was raised nonreligous and was mixed up him self.

As to the News Paper idea what if JFJ put adds about Jewish holidays before each one in the NY TImes.  They could give messianic spin on it.   they could say JFJ wishes the NYC Jewish community a happy Passover.  

Putting the add in USA today would be confusiong cause most towns have no orthodox JEws.