#441 Expel Your Demons

Streetwise Hebrew

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🗓️ 12 August 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

The Hebrew word גירוש means expulsion and deportation, but the most commonly used word we get from this root is entirely different. Guy explains.

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New Words and Expressions:

Legaresh – To expel, to deport – לגרש

Gerush – Expulsion, deportation – גירוש

“Mishpacha she-higiah le-loov achrei gerush sfarad” – A family which arrived to Lybia after the expulsion of the Jews from Spain – משפחה שהגיעה ללוב אחרי גירוש ספרד

Gerush sfarad – The expulsion of the Jews from Spain – גירוש ספרד

Gerush shedim – Exorcism – גירוש שדים

“Gershu et ha-mishpacha sheli” – My family was expelled – גירשו את המשפחה שלי

“Shir megaresh et ha-hoshech ba-laila” – A song expels the darkness at night – שיר מגרש את החושך בלילה

“Le-yehudim she-hem tse’etsa’im shel megorshei sfarad, kal yachasit lehotsi oto” – For Jews who are descendants of the deportees from Spain, it’s relatively easy to issue it – ליהודים שהם צאצאים של מגורשי ספרד, קל יחסית להוציא אותו

Megorash – Deportee – מגורש

Megorshei sfarad – The Jews expelled from Spain – מגורשי ספרד

“Ha-horim sheli hitgarshu” – My parents got divorced – ההורים שלי התרגשו

Lehitgaresh – To get divorced – להתגרש

Gerooshin/gerooshim – A divorce – גירושין, גירושים

“Ha-im haredim mitgarshim? – Do the ultra orthodox get divorced? – האם חרדים מתגרשים

Horim grooshim – Divorced parents – הורים גרושים

Yeladim lehorim grooshim – Kids of divorced parents – ילדים להורים גרושים

Playlist and Clips:

Gerush Sfarad

Hava Alberstein – Shir Megaresh et Ha-hoshech (lyrics)

Ha-horim sheli hitgarshu

Transcript

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0:00.0	This is TLV1.
0:10.4	Shalom.
0:13.3	Shalom, it's me Guy with Streetwise Hebrew.
0:16.0	Listener and patron Alex from Boston,
0:18.5	Shalom Alex, asked me to talk about Legares to expel an interesting
0:23.4	shoresh, gimmel, Resch, Shin. As Toda Alex, today will do just that. The first word I'd like to talk
0:30.3	about is expulsion, deportation, gyrush, gymel Yudresh, Vashin, gyrosh. This next clip comes from a Channel 13 TV story from 2019
0:40.9	about the trend of Israelis trying to get foreign citizenship and a new passport.
0:46.7	This is the fact that Havavathev is a sphraredi with a confederate
0:51.0	in the backeroussfarlad, and that's what you're going to beasurquot the Portuguese.
0:56.6	This is Shai, who works at a company helping Israelis get foreign citizenship.
1:01.9	He's sitting with a client in his office,
1:03.9	explaining why his family is entitled to Portuguese citizenship.
1:08.7	Shai has a book with family names
1:10.5	and shows the client that his surname, Arbiv, is on the list.
1:15.6	This is the proof, Shai says, that the Arbiv family comes from Spain,
1:20.6	Mishpachsha, which arrived to Libya, after the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492.
1:31.4	Literally, gerush, expulsion, deportation,
1:35.0	Sfarad, Spain, it says, smithut,
1:37.3	Gerush, Sfarad, compound noun.
1:39.4	So literally the expulsion of Spain,
1:41.5	meaning the expulsion from Spain.
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