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5: Holy Cow!

Israel Story

Israel Story

Judaism, Palestine, Jewish, Stories, Religion & Spirituality, Israel

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2015

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

An episode all about sacred bovines!

The stories of four featured moo-ers: a red heifer that some think will bring the messiah, a cow that’s become the symbol of radical Israeli veganism, buffalos that hold the future for a self-described “Israeli redneck,” and the golden calf that was biblical big-business.

Cowabunga!

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H-A-S-A-A-H.

1:18.0

dot-O-O-S-A-S-A-S-A-S-A-S-A-O-O-O slash slash on-call Israel. Okay, so like many everyday expressions, no one's totally sure where Holy cow comes from.

1:32.4

Obviously many linguists point east, you know, the whole

1:35.2

sacred cows in India business, some others give credit to Batman and Robin, and then

1:39.9

there's a bunch of popularizers. Famously of course the Yankees Phil Rizzuto

1:44.4

whose catchphrase even ended up on the Seinfeld episode. What is this? Oh! Steinbrenner

1:51.3

gave him to us. In honor of Phil Rizzito being inducted into the whole of fame.

1:55.0

Holy cow!

1:58.0

And yeah, just looking at Wikipedia here for a sec,

2:02.0

baseball seems to feature dominantly in the holy cow history.

2:06.6

I'm reading here, the phrase appears to have been adopted as a means to avoid penalties

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