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DispatchCulture· May 24, 2004 · 1 min read

Torment!

Israel Pickholtz (isai8v10ATactcom.co.il) sent this email to a word a day email .. My favorite word for relations is the Hebrew for what the two concurrent wives of…

Israel Pickholtz (isai8v10ATactcom.co.il) sent this email to a word a day email ..

My favorite word for relations is the Hebrew for what the two concurrent

wives of the same man (back when bigamy was legal) are to one another.

The word is “tzara” which also means “trouble” or “torment.”

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