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Response to sneezing. In English -speaking countries, the common verbal response to another person's sneeze is "[God] bless you", or, less commonly in the United States and Canada, "Gesundheit", the German word for health (and the response to sneezing in German-speaking countries). There are several proposed bless-you origins for use in the ...
God bless you (variants include God bless or bless you[1]) is a common English phrase generally used to wish a person blessings in various situations, [1][2] especially to "will the good of another person", as a response to a sneeze, and also, when parting or writing a valediction. [1][3][4] The phrase has been used in the Hebrew Bible by Jews ...
Several hypotheses exist for why the custom arose of saying "bless you" or "God bless you" in the context of sneezing: Some say it came into use during the plague pandemics of the 14th century. Blessing the individual after showing such a symptom was thought to prevent possible impending death due to the lethal disease. [25]
In the US it's traditionally a "bless you." "The Greeks and Romans took sneezing as a sign of wellness and expressed their good wishes to the person who sneezed using the phrase 'live long,' or ...
A midrash is told that until Jacob 's time, a person sneezed at the close of his life and instantly died. Jacob prayed for more time to prepare for death, which was granted to him, as indicated by the message to Joseph, "Behold, thy father is sick". [28][29] Subsequently, it became the rule for illness to precede death.
May her lakes and rivers bless you. May the luck of the Irish enfold you. May the blessings of Saint Patrick behold you. 25. May you have the health to wear it. 26. May the luck of the Irish ...
Story (likely myth) that the custom of saying "God Bless You" as a response to sneezing was started by Pope Gregory. During the COVID-19 pandemic I've seen several people claim that the origin of "God Bless You" was an edict by Pope Gregory at the height of the 590 plague, since sneezing was supposedly the first visible symptom of the disease.
Hebrew. This form of greeting was traditional among the Ashkenazi Jewish communities of Eastern Europe. The appropriate response is " Aleichem Shalom " (עֲלֵיכֶם שָׁלוֹם) or "Upon you be peace." (cognate with the Arabic-language " assalamu alaikum " meaning "The peace [of ] be upon you.)" L'hitraot.