Yiddish proverb tradition

Traditional Ashkenazi Jewish saying · author unknown

Yiddish proverbs are the distilled folk wisdom of Ashkenazi Jewish communities of Central and Eastern Europe, carried orally over centuries before being gathered into printed collections. This saying captures a bittersweet truth about the generations: a parent gives to a child joyfully, while a grown child giving back to an aging parent carries an ache of role-reversal. Like most proverbs it has no known individual author — and no connection to Shakespeare.

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