Sunday, July 23, 2017

Reb Penguin Arrives




Reb Penguin works in the Diamond business.  He spends many days on 47th street in New York City between 5th and 6th Avenue (although he stays with us a lot also).

One of the things he likes is to find a lot of shivimers (impressive diamonds, literally 'swimmers' that are pretty enough to stand out among the other diamonds).  This is especially nice when they are a mame zitser (a large diamond, literally a 'mother sitter').

This will lead to mazel and brokhe (luck and blessing) and thus a sale to a Faynshmeker (a connoisseur, although literally a fine sniffer).

That, in turn will make a deal that is parnose (livelihood) for Penguin and an apparent metsiye (bargain) for the faynshmeker. 

All in all a gevinen gevinen (a win-win).

Diamond lingo is found in this NYTimes article.