Hutzpa - what is this?

Let us recall the literary image of the hero Ilf and Petrov Ostap Bender, who says that success is most possible when there is a lot of incomprehensible and at the same time unconditionally honoring only the Criminal Code. He is interesting, charismatic, bright. For many generations of people of different nationalities, the type of the great combinator is one of the favorite humorous images. If you read this novel, answer: who could argue or influence the plans of "the son of a Turkish citizen"? Obviously, no one. Bender is undoubtedly witty, self-sufficient. Speaking seriously, he is an encyclopedic example of a Jew who uses the purely Jewish principle of life, whose name sounds like a hutzpa. The meaning of this word can be briefly revealed only superficially. (Other nations have no analog of this principle.)

Hutzpa and her forgery

This article examines the meaning and features of the principle that the descendants of David are guided by, the name of it became a common name and is pronounced "hutzpa". This is a certain social pattern of active behavior, excluding passivity, shyness, shyness. Moreover, with the help of hutspra, the qualities of a leader are formed in a person from childhood .

At the same time, communication and intelligence are essential for using it. A sense of humor is welcome . There is one more subtlety in the recipe of hutzpy. It should be peppered with a pinch of cheerful boldness. It is important not to overdo it. Otherwise, instead of khutspah turn out rudeness, and instead of an intelligent Jew - aggressive towards people and even to whole countries, "Zhirinovsky."

However, there is also enough misinterpretation of this concept. For example, it is wrong to use this word in the title of a scandalous film called "Hutspa Fuchegy." A politicized film on this subject clearly vulgarizes both the Jews and the meaning of the hutzpy. After all, insolent boldness in asserting one's rights by a person is one thing, and bloodshed is completely different. (Remember the words of Ostap Bender in the Golden Calf: "I did not kill, I was killed.") The politicians with a certain amount of meanness called a movie by the name of the odious head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Odessa Fuchetzhi, who gave a scandalous interview after the tragedy on May 2, 2014, deliberately unscanned blatant crime The filmmakers in advance and indiscriminately linked with the Jewish tradition. Why do they set out to stimulate anti-Semitism? The question remains open.

Examples of hutspas

Let's go back to the story. Perhaps, the hutzpa, which shook the world, is the formation of the state of Israel itself. It allowed the ancient people, permanently deprived of their homeland, to regain it in the distant 1948. The impudence, the ability to adequately resist the force acts of opponents allowed the Jews to create a precedent for the return of the motherland.

However, neither super-articulation, nor lawlessness was not. It should be noted that when creating Israel, Jews initially followed international legal acts. As is known, on the eve of the creation (29.11.1947) of the UN adopted a plan for the partition of Palestine. And then the real Jewish Hutzpah began - the War of Independence, where a tiny country was able to effectively resist the League of Arab States. It was necessary to show character, and the Jews showed it. The state took place.

However, most often the hutzp appears externally at the level of "verbal duels". In this context, Kolomoisky's recent reply is recalled as an example. To the acute journalistic question about why he uses double citizenship in violation of the current Ukrainian legislation , the owner of "Privatbank" objected that his citizenship is triple, and this is not prohibited by law.

Huzpa is planted since childhood

To any nation, as far as Jews are concerned, the phraseology "dogs do not fit, but the caravan goes." We must give them their due, they are constantly aimed at success in various spheres of society. And they act not blindly, not "at random", but guided by special rules and principles. And it works! Children play a role in the production of children. How to learn this state of mind? Gradually, from generation to generation, vaccinate his children. Jews, before the creation of Israel for centuries lived in different countries, while not being their titular nation. They were compelled to compete for social bonuses with opponents in a more preferential position. Success did not immediately come to them. But they patiently went to him, properly rearing their children.

Remember the words of the once-popular song Lebedev-Kumach from the youthful film "The First Glove":

With every failure
Giving you the surrender,
Otherwise, you do not see luck!

There was a certain social pattern of active behavior. Jews are encouraged in their children to competently master a specialty, the lack of extra modesty, the ability to argue arguably, defending their position. A Jewish child learns to be guided by his own common sense.

David's descendants do not fundamentally beat their children, they do not blame him for their mistake, but they help with advice, contributing to the development of creative approaches and ingenuity.

From parents to children, from generation to generation, a hutzpa is planted. This fundamentally distinguishes Jews from non-Jews (goyim). One of the rules of hutzp is not to take blindly imposed power, whether it be a state, a leader, etc. And one should not just have your own personal, individual opinion, but you must also defend it. Such education is laid by the family in the Jewish child of childhood. Dispute and conflict management - this is what the Jews have succeeded in.

Common sense and hutzpa

Is there any common sense among Jews and hutzp? These are two sides of the same coin! Common sense is a compass showing the life path, and the hutzpa is an armor that does not allow strangers to interfere with the position of the arrow. Remember the novel by Charles Dickens "Great Expectations." There is a phrase that the most precious thing a person has is his common sense. It was about the fact that a person can lose a lot in life, but then this loss can be made up. However, losing his common sense, he in the long term loses everything.

Who benefits from demonization hutzpy

Many, succumbing to the cliches of ideology, argue that hutzpa - Jewish super-arrogance. Already in this very expression, anti-Semitism is hidden! We ask the counter question: "Over the arrogance of whom?" And what, other nations are also insolent? " We will be just, because not the Jewish nation unleashed the two most insolent actions in the history of mankind - two world wars. Not Jews, after all, starved tens of millions of people with an unlimited food surplus. And today the Jews do not descend to the cave level, to declare the whole people fascists. They in this case correctly speak about concrete persons.

In a word, hutzpa consists in adequate external attacks of arrogance, in the ability to stand up for oneself, the ability to present one's personality in competitive conditions. And yet, full of clichés "Hutzpa - Jewish super-arrogance." Undoubtedly, despots with the help of "pocket" mass media are very profitable to categorically censor the generic, born in really advanced people, which has become the property of this people's ability to uphold their own dignity. Perhaps, by distorting the essence of the hutzp, they want to turn away other nations from its succession?

Wisdom and Hutzpa

A person must have resistance to external influences. If he does not follow his dao (life path), then it is unlikely that his personality will take place. Who knows who does not like it! Who knows if anyone wants to make him follow his wishes! You think, someone wants to change his identity for his own convenience! This does not work with the Jews.

Indeed, hutzpa (super-arrogance) - a national Jewish trait - is somewhat akin to the artificially prolonged bullying of adolescents, but it manifests itself more intellectually. A Jew can besiege a fugitive, paralyzing him with one of his utmost insight and even more insolent phrase.

Hutzpa in the home

In ordinary life, Jews are intelligent, their family way of life is a pattern for following, they get on well with their neighbors, with colleagues at work. As a rule, these are respected people in their specialty. But their social position is not conformist. The Jew, following the hutzpe, will not remain silent in the event that his interests are infringed, even if it is covered by law.

Personal pride encourages him to defend his "I" immediately, with a drop in his address, he will immediately and resolutely enter into a dispute even in conditions of uncertainty. Indeed, Jews are very uncomfortable for those who try to fish in troubled waters. Notice the trend, they were always tried at the state level to oppress in empires. Why? They do not allow anyone to "get yourself on your neck."

Hutspa and humor

By the way, hutzpa (super-arrogance) is a national Jewish trait, fully manifested in the phenomenon of Odessa's humor. His characters are bright, extremely self-assured and self-centered. They seem to compete among themselves in the severity of phrases: Sarah with Abram, Abram and Moysha. They try to express themselves with every phrase, trying to exceed their intellectual level with the intellectual level of the interlocutor. Tell me, manifested in this way hutzpa - is it not funny?

At the same time, Jews do not take openness, perseverance, purposefulness.

Instead of concluding

We have tried in this article to show a social role and outline the boundaries of the existence of the Jewish hutzpa. It is undeniable that with its help the Jews were able to more gradually build up their abilities and, as a result, welfare.

However, it is important not to put a sign of identity between hutzp and rudeness, which is not a Jewish national tradition. Attempts to falsely associate the notion of hutzp with bloodshed are criminal in nature.