how to say “gragger” (toy rattle) in Hebrew
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Last night and today, Jews around the world are celebrating the salvation and thriving of the Jewish people despite existential threat.
When they hear the name of the emblematic oppressor of the Jews, הָמָן – Haman, men and women and children shout and stamp their feet and shake a toy rattle traditionally called a gragger (or ratchet).
– Haman, men and women and children shout and stamp their feet and shake a toy rattle traditionally called a gragger (or ratchet).But the originally-Yiddish term gragger won’t work for the Jews of Israel, who have revived the language of their forefathers before the exiles, the Hebrew language. Israelis don’t use a gragger. They use a רַעֲשָׁן .
.As the children’s song goes:
מַסֵּכוֹת וְרַעֲשָׁנִים, שִׁירִים וְרִקּוּדִים…
Masks and graggers, songs and dances…
רעשן derives from רַעַשׁ meaning noise.
meaning noise.פּוּרִים שָׂמֵחַ!
Happy Purim!