Datlash

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Noun
  1. 1
    An apostate from Judaism. Judaism, rare

    "Most are young people in their twenties and thirties, and they represent an entire spectrum: religious, datlashim (formerly religious, but usually people for whom religion and tradition are still important to some degree),[…]"

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"Most are young people in their twenties and thirties, and they represent an entire spectrum: religious, datlashim (formerly religious, but usually people for whom religion and tradition are still important to some degree),[…]"

Etymology

Borrowed from Hebrew דַּתְלָ״שׁ (datlásh), from a contraction of דָּתִי לְשֶׁעָבַר (datí l'she'avár, “formerly religious”).

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