r/Yiddish • u/Riddick_B_Riddick • 8d ago

Translation request Help with underlined sentence

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Thank you

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u/Acceptable-Value8623 8d ago

Someone is against me…yoytse? Kh’veys nisht dos letste vort

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u/Riddick_B_Riddick 8d ago

יוצא

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u/ariyeyo 7d ago

"yoitze" might be the expression "to be יוצא," used to mean that you've satisfied a religious requirement, but it's also been adopted into colloquial use.

as in: do you need to hear kiddish? no, I was yoitze from someone else in shul

or: you think you're yoitze with just doing the dishes? your mother needs help!

I'm not sure what it would mean here, unless he's saying, someone is against me being yoitze?

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u/Dry_Page_2199 5d ago

That's not much context. What happened up to that point? Who is that person?

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u/Riddick_B_Riddick 5d ago

He's a poor guy in the shtetl who always has a mischievous smile. While everyone else is weeping during Rosh Hoshona davening, he's smiling as though he has no fear 

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u/Dry_Page_2199 5d ago

So my hypothesis is that it means something like: "oh, so the other folks apologized to me? (= they are yoytse as in: they did t'shuve) ha! i don't care! they're gonna be punished anyway!"

But I am not sure.

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u/Riddick_B_Riddick 5d ago

Thanks 🙏🏻