Lipa Schmeltzer is going to israel to be at Sharon's bed side, they want him to sing "A Bi MeLeibt"

And we care why?
I don't like him anymore.

"A Kapureh" would be more fitting.

is lipa a yiddish name?

Yes. And since we need Yiddish to spell Lipa, we need Yiddish period.
QED.

what does it mean?

You'd have to ask Shmilik.

Who needs him? Lipa is a nickname for Eliezer or Elazar. Or that's its origin, at least.

huh? that's creative.... how'd you get from Eliezer or Elazar to lipa?

I didn't, but other people did. There are many, many names like that. Naturally, I can think of none at the moment.

acutally Lipa is 99% of the time preceded by chananya yom tov - i.e. chananya yomtov Lipa.

The Tosfos Yom Tov's name was Lipa

I noticed that too. Like Freund.


Yom Tov Lipa. My great-great... grandfather.

And I've seen "Eliezer Lipa"s.

Yo, we're cousins. Should I be worried?

I won't tell if you don't.


Is that the basis for saying one comes from the other? Because if so, it's not very good.

uh oh.
gabbe, accolade, I, and my israeli pen pal are 13th cousins.

No, the basis was actually a web page I found - the only one that discussed the origin of Lipa as a first name. Not very sound, agreed. But no one's come up with anything better.




Whoa, don't throw me into the mix. I never said nothing about no one.

Sorry. It was aishes ish.

'sok. Just setting the record straight.

For a minute there, I felt like the black sheep in the family. It's all good now.

Just got this, i don't know if it's new stuff or you have seen it already.

Lipa singing for the "Nachal Charedi" in israel.

http://www.nahalharedi.org/schmeltzer.wmv

Oy vay! is he now an official Zionist, will this get the Kanoisdig Chasidisher Frum crowd to be even more mad on him, after they were already upset on him just for his style of music and singing.

On the other had, myabe this was just a retaliation from him, after the Hisachdos Horabonim recently published an issur on his latest Album Keinehora.

Go figure.

Lippmann, not Lipa. Lipa is a Yiddish name derived from the diminutive of Lippmann.

My dad's second name is Lipa in hebrew and Lippman in English, what is Lippman? I always thought it to be an odd name.

It's an Old Yiddish name, derived, I think, from German Liebmann.

Very funny!

why is he singing for a rasha?!