#shmendrik

[eekonis]

snufkin? schmendrik? magician.

[jewsnfalafels-blog]

Jewish word of the week: “shmendrik”! The word “shmendrik” means “jerk” or “stupid person”! The word was popularized in Jewish propaganda works such as “The Last Unicorn”, and Welcome Back Kotter. Please do not use this word, as it is roughly as offensive as the n-word.

- mod Cuck

[pitch-and-moan]

Don't Be a Shmendrik, Be a Mensch

10 Jewish men are trapped together in a small, windowless room for evening prayer.  They begin discussing the passages related to forming a minyan, with nine men agreeing it should be one way, and the tenth arguing for a more peaceable, reasoned analysis.  Over the course of the film, the lone holdout convinces the other nine, one by one, going through the 613 commandments, swaying them to his side of the argument, until they're all finally agreed.  With that, the minyan finishes, and they leave, exhausted, grumpy, and hungry.