A Taste of Yiddish 5.18

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this week's proverb

קויפסט שיך פאַר זיך טאָ מעסט זיי נישט אויף פרעמדע פיס

transliterated

koyfst shikh far zikh, to mest zey nit af frem'de fis

the proverb actually means

you are buying shoes for yourself don't measure them to someone else's feet

(don't acquire knowledge so you can use it to lecture others)

translated to Hebrew

אתה קונה לעצמך נעליים, אל תמדוד אותם על רגליים זרות

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A proverb is a short, generally known sentence of the folk which contains wisdom, truth, morals, and traditional views in a metaphorical, fixed and memorizable form and which is handed down from generation to generation