קעסטkest meaning in Yiddish
room and board provided to a young couple by the in-laws after the wedding · noun (feminine)
One tiny word that swallows a whole chapter of a marriage: the newlyweds move in with her parents, and everyone pretends it will be short.
זײ זײַנען געזעסן אויף קעסט בײַ די שווער און שוויגער גאַנצע דרײַ יאָר.
“They lived on kest at his in-laws' for a full three years.”
Picture the first year of a marriage lived at somebody else's kitchen table — whose house was it, and who was in charge of the salt?
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Published 11 August 2026