The Happiness Passport: A World Tour of Joyful Living in 50 Words by Megan Hayes

Author:Megan Hayes
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781781318027
Publisher: Aurum Press
Published: 2018-10-30T00:00:00+00:00

M E N T S H  (שטנעמ)

mɛnt͡ʃ  | noun | Yiddish

1. a human being

2. an honourable person

Happiness is rarely tied to one single element or feature of our lives. We are not usually happy only because of our environment, or only because of our friends, or only because of our successes – happiness is a juicy fruit salad of all of these aspects of life. Equally, then, having good character is not usually about possessing one single positive trait, but is rather a whole gamut of good things rolled into one. Which brings us to the important and multi-dimensional Yiddish concept of being a mentsh

– a word that originates from the German mensch (where it simply means

‘person’), and which has also become a loanword in American English.

In Yiddish, to be a mentsh evokes being an admirable human being

– someone others trust, respect and look up to. This might include

being just, dignified, humanitarian, compassionate, generous, a ‘stand up guy’ or someone revered and even emulated by others. Collectively,

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