Definitions

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  • noun a stew of fruit or vegetables traditionally served on Rosh Hashana

Etymologies

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From Yiddish

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Examples

  • So often did Jews go ‘to the eating’ and find a sweet vegetable or fruit stew on the table that the stew itself took on the name tzimmes and so did any mixed-up, troublesome, or messy situation.

    Make It Easy Make It Light Laurie Burrows Grad 1987

  • So often did Jews go ‘to the eating’ and find a sweet vegetable or fruit stew on the table that the stew itself took on the name tzimmes and so did any mixed-up, troublesome, or messy situation.

    Make It Easy Make It Light Laurie Burrows Grad 1987

  • So often did Jews go ‘to the eating’ and find a sweet vegetable or fruit stew on the table that the stew itself took on the name tzimmes and so did any mixed-up, troublesome, or messy situation.

    Make It Easy Make It Light Laurie Burrows Grad 1987

  • So often did Jews go ‘to the eating’ and find a sweet vegetable or fruit stew on the table that the stew itself took on the name tzimmes and so did any mixed-up, troublesome, or messy situation.

    Make It Easy Make It Light Laurie Burrows Grad 1987

  • So often did Jews go ‘to the eating’ and find a sweet vegetable or fruit stew on the table that the stew itself took on the name tzimmes and so did any mixed-up, troublesome, or messy situation.

    Make It Easy Make It Light Laurie Burrows Grad 1987

  • According to Patti Shosteck in A Lexicon of Jewish Cooking Contemporary Books, 1979: The Yiddish word tzimmes comes from two German words, zum and essen, meaning ‘to the eating.’

    Make It Easy Make It Light Laurie Burrows Grad 1987

  • According to Patti Shosteck in A Lexicon of Jewish Cooking Contemporary Books, 1979: The Yiddish word tzimmes comes from two German words, zum and essen, meaning ‘to the eating.’

    Make It Easy Make It Light Laurie Burrows Grad 1987

  • According to Patti Shosteck in A Lexicon of Jewish Cooking Contemporary Books, 1979: The Yiddish word tzimmes comes from two German words, zum and essen, meaning ‘to the eating.’

    Make It Easy Make It Light Laurie Burrows Grad 1987

  • According to Patti Shosteck in A Lexicon of Jewish Cooking Contemporary Books, 1979: The Yiddish word tzimmes comes from two German words, zum and essen, meaning ‘to the eating.’

    Make It Easy Make It Light Laurie Burrows Grad 1987

  • According to Patti Shosteck in A Lexicon of Jewish Cooking Contemporary Books, 1979: The Yiddish word tzimmes comes from two German words, zum and essen, meaning ‘to the eating.’

    Make It Easy Make It Light Laurie Burrows Grad 1987

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