What is chutzpah?

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-16 18:34

Chutzpah carriers behave like they don't care about being wrong. The concept of "chutzpah" is absent from other peoples and its analogy is not found in other languages.

Chutzpah is when Kolomoisky declares that his triple citizenship does not contradict the law, since the constitution says about dual citizenship.

The presence of chutzpah among Jews is due to their culture. Over the centuries, the Jews, living among other nations, strengthened their faith in the chosenness of God for their people. The origins of the chutzpah go back to Talmudic lies. Some believe that chutzpah protects Jews from social anxiety and feelings of self-inferiority, although in fact it characterizes their relentless desire to win money in any way, as well as a disdainful attitude towards other peoples and the intention to raise the value of their personality by belittling the personality of another.

In Jewish circles, chutzpu is more often understood as audacity that goes beyond what less successful people think possible, thereby distinguishing a successful person from an unsuccessful one and allowing them to overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles, for example, obvious wrong.

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Anecdotal example of chutzpah:

… the person guilty of killing his parents asks the judge for leniency on the grounds that he is an orphan

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Professor Dershowitz, in his work "Chutzpah" showed that for their domination and predominance in the world, Jews should be grateful to "Chutzpah" - the national trait of the Jewish people and not be ashamed of it. Jewish professor Norman Finkelstein argued with Dershowitz in Behind the Chutzpah:

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And here is how the Jews themselves respectfully speak of this quality:

I myself am Russian, as far as I have been able to trace the family tree. But for some reason I was always interested in why, for example, my classmate with a sonorous Jewish surname behaved somewhat differently than other children, often argued with teachers, demanded better grades. Well, I thought, this is the character. And after finishing school and stepping on the high road of life, I met various people, including those with Jewish roots, who convinced me that it was not only a matter of character.

The main character traits of a Jew are self-esteem and any lack of timidity and shyness. To convey these qualities of a Jew, there is even a special term - "chutzpah", which has no translation into other languages. Chutzpah is a special kind of pride that encourages action, despite the danger of being unprepared, incapable, or insufficiently experienced.

For a Jew, "chutzpah" means special courage, the desire to fight an unpredictable fate. Many believe that the very existence of the State of Israel is an act of chutzpah. It is very important that the chutzpah speaker behaves as if he does not care about the possibility of being wrong. In practice, this leads to the fact that for a long time a person receives more rewards for his actions than if he avoided them, and does not attach importance to minor troubles.

A person with a chutzpah will easily invite the queen of the ball to dance, demand a promotion and a raise in wages, and will strive for higher grades and more interesting work, without fear of rejection or failure. The most unpleasant situation for a Jew is to be vulnerable. He reacts much more calmly than representatives of other nations to strangers, authority figures, to situations when attention is drawn to him or when he is being evaluated, and in fact to all situations of communication, even those associated with some kind of uncertainty.

This characteristic of the Israelis is due to their culture. For centuries, Jews have been persecuted, no matter what nation they find themselves in. But, rejected by other people, they strengthened their faith in God's chosen people. This belief reinforced a sense of self-worth that could not be broken by violence or rejection.

Fear of persecution forced Jews to withdraw into the circle of their communities. The family was considered the central link in life, and children were the raison d'être. Children are an invaluable gift, even if their parents are disadvantaged and humiliated. Children are viewed as a symbol of life and a guarantee of the future of a nation facing the threat of destruction. It is considered quite natural if a stranger speaks to a child on the street, helps him in something., will give his mother useful parenting advice.

Many in Israel are former immigrants who have failed to realize their potential, so they see their hopes as the embodiment of their children and are ready to sacrifice everything for the sake of the child. As a result, most Israeli children grow up believing that they are the center of the universe. A positive attitude towards children is manifested in many ways: they are allowed to enter into conversations of adults, they are encouraged to demonstrate their talents in front of family and friends, and the reward follows even when the demonstration is not very effective.

Children rightly count on support and approval from those who love them, and criticism tend to be attributed to the shortcomings of the critic himself. Although the child may not know a particular person, he sees him as a guest rather than as a "stranger." In a kibbutz, where children are brought up together, and parents do not bear full responsibility for them, children develop self-confidence and the ability to lead. Openness, determination and perseverance are encouraged in every possible way. Shyness and modesty among the Israelis are associated with weakness, with an inability to resist the blows of fate, with passivity and spiritual defeatism - like those Jews who did not fight for their lives under Hitlerism

The aforementioned features of the Israeli way of life protect Jews from the social anxiety and feelings of their own inferiority, so often experienced by representatives of other nations.

The intellectual level of Jews in a number of fields of science, culture and art is very high. Perhaps this explains their increased arrogance. Often, the latter is manifested in the desire to raise the value of one's personality by belittling the personality of another.

Naturally, as elsewhere, there are exceptions. I am familiar with Jews who lack this character trait. And the concept of "chutzpah" can easily be attributed to many Russians. To go far, most of his acquaintances consider my father to be a Jew, and when they find out the opposite, they are very disappointed. My husband, though only a quarter of a Jew, took a lot from his grandfather. And most likely it is thanks to these qualities that they both reached those heights that I, a modest Russian girl, are afraid to even think about;))

E. V. Melnikova Culture and traditions of the peoples of the world (ethnopsychological aspect). - M.: Dialogue of Cultures, 2006

Chutzpah examples:

• Dr. Hilda Nesimi accused the Harry Potter series of anti-Semitism on the grounds that it did not mention Jews.
• An example of an unimaginable chutzpah is a comment from the forum: an Israeli is asked why in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Palestinian children die 22 times more often than Jewish ones? He calmly replies: We hide our children, and the Palestinians hide behind them.
• Another example of the chutzpah: in 1917, the Jews revolutionized Russia and took absolute power into their hands, but the Jewish Bolsheviks hid behind the curtain of the proletarian revolution and put Stalin ahead of them. Having exterminated 100 million people in Russia, by the 1960s they declared themselves the victims, and on this basis they begged for emigration to America and Israel, where they now live happily ever after at a full state boarding school. This is chutzpah.
• In St. Petersburg, the American mercenaries of Trotsky who came from Wall Street, who did not need to work and earn a living because they were financed by Jacob Schiff, a Jewish banker from Wall Street, held posters: "Down with the Wall Street lackeys." This is not a paradox, but an extreme degree of lies and sophistication - the Jewish chutzpah. These people tend to blame their own victims for their crimes.
• The "Holocaust experts" Jews Elie Wiesel, Simon Wiesenthal and others have spread the lie for many years that during World War II the Germans made soap out of Jews. When this lie was exposed by Holocaust revisionists, Israeli "Holocaust expert" Shmuel Krakowski admitted in 1990 that Jewish soap was fiction and reported that the tale of Jewish fat soap was invented by the Nazis themselves in order to deliver mental suffering to Jews.
• When a 3,200-year-old golden Assyrian tablet with a 3,200-year history was found stolen from one of the "victims of the Holocaust" in 2010, stolen from the Berlin Forderasiatisches Museum after the war, and the court ordered to return it to the museum, the daughter of the "victim of the Holocaust" said:

This golden Assyrian tablet represents my father's ability to survive during a dark period in the lives of my parents and in the lives of the Jewish people. It was the only thing that he took from that bitter time, and he wanted to pass this thing on to his children and future generations, so that it would serve as a reminder of the cruelty and death of his family at the hands of the Nazis.

And her Jewish lawyer was outraged:

The Assyrian tablet is emotionally important to the family and was one of the first things that Riven Flamenbaum [Holocaust victim] held in his hands when he emigrated to the United States. He started a new life here, raised three children, and now they [the museum] are chasing after his past.

Ostap Bender is a good illustrative example of khtsupa. Bender tells his companions:

"The most important thing is to bring confusion into the ranks of the enemy. The enemy must lose his mental balance. What are people afraid of? People are most afraid of the incomprehensible in the end. Yes, yes, more of the incomprehensible!" Bender advises.

Examples of KHUTZPA from modern life:

A unique recording of the soundtrack to Fyodor Bondarchuk's film Inhabited Island took place at the Mosfilm studio on Thursday: the guitars of Paul McCartney, Sting, Keith Richards, Tony Iommi and two guitars of the Led Zeppelin group, owned by John Paul Jones and Jimmy Page, were used. According to one of the crew members, the rental and delivery of expensive instruments that used to belong to the greatest rock musicians of our time, and are now in a private collection, cost the creators of the picture almost $ 500,000.

What kind of guitars were there in reality - a clear stump, no one will know (all the more - what's the difference whose guitars they were), and the guys washed half a million at the moment, and created an informational occasion.

A little book with an interesting title "Hebrew as a Second Language", with a very revealing subtitle: "How to spawn, how to interrupt others, and how to say the exact opposite of what you think." - As they say, "language as a reflection of the psychology of the nation."