Willow ,'Empty Places'
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Yeah, he could have said commune for kibbutz. That is weird.
I had no idea what the dayenu expression was, and I didn't understand what he was saying when he said, but that one is really sort of obscure for him.
Although it is a religious thing. And he and Sam do know something about religions, so.
Although it is a religious thing. And he and Sam do know something about religions, so.
He's also, over the years, sprinkled a fair amount of Yiddish into his conversations.
Sam, on the other hand, not so much. It doesn't seem like something Dean would just pick up in research or on his own. Seems like something he picked up from someone, somewhere.
This feels like fertile plot bunny ground that someone should plant and harvest! Someone other than me, as apparently, my writing mojo left the building and is out there on a flatbread somewhere or something.
So, Dean and the kindly Jewish grandmother who taught him to knit and he secretly likes that, too?
Dean and hot Hebrew student?
Dean ... I'm out. I have no idea what I'm even saying now.
In the Impala, after Sam shot the Crossroads demon, Dean asked Sam if there was something he needed to tell Dean. Sam said, "It's not your birthday." Dean said, "No." Then Sam said, "Happy Purim?"
I'll go with Dean dating a nice Jewish girl, and she invited him to a Passover Seder, where he experienced the Dayenu firsthand. Hey, he loves to sing anyway. I can see a nice bit of fan fiction where the poor boy has to sit starving through the long, drawn out Passover Seder.
"Dayenu" is an expression representing gratitude to God for providing more than enough in the way of blessings, for going above and beyond. Essentially "God led us out of Egypt, but if He'd only freed us from bondage, that would have been sufficient (Dayenu). God gave us the Ten Commandments, but if He'd only led us to Mount Sinai, that would have been sufficient (Dayenu)". It goes on for a bit and then is sung at the Seder table near the end of the Haggadah (Passover prayer book). There was a wiki link someone posted upthread that does a better job of explaining than I ever could.
In any case, Dean may have a GED, but there's no question he's something of a renaissance man. And something tells me he's been exposed to (perhaps at John's or maybe Pastor Jim's insistence) and remembers a fair amount of theology. He's certainly far more clever than he cares to show.
In the Impala, after Sam shot the Crossroads demon, Dean asked Sam if there was something he needed to tell Dean. Sam said, "It's not your birthday." Dean said, "No." Then Sam said, "Happy Purim?"
Man, I have TOTALLY repressed S3, apparently. You'd think I'd remember Happy Purim!
Dean and Ziva from NCIS!
It's funny, I never thought about the Dean using Jewish-isms thing as anything other than "a lot of the writers are Jewish."
It's funny, I never thought about the Dean using Jewish-isms thing as anything other than "a lot of the writers are Jewish."
That's the Doylist response! Watsonian's more fun!
John's parents could have had a mixed marriage, and maybe Dean has dim memories of Passover over at his Grandmother's place (but she died before Sam was born, so those memories are really dim). Bobby could *totally* be Jewish! (Actually, this seems fairly likely, for a Watsonian explanation.)
"Singer" is indeed a Jewish surname. I'll go along with Bobby being one of my people. :-)
"Singer" is indeed a Jewish surname. I'll go along with Bobby being one of my people. :-)
My exact thought process was, "Or one of the hunters they saw a lot as kids was Jewish! Hey... Bobby's last name is Singer!"