Saintly and The Righteous
The abbreviation “זי״ע/zy"a” stands for "zekhuto yagen `aleinu/May his merit shield us," and often follows the mention of meritorious righteous ones. A variant is “זיע״א/zya"a” which adds "Amen" at the end.
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Famous quotes containing the words saintly and, saintly and/or righteous:
“Even if it were proven that God didn’t exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)
“Even if it were proven that God didn’t exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)
“There is a place where we are always alone with our own mortality, where we must simply have something greater than ourselves to hold onto—God or history or politics or literature or a belief in the healing power of love, or even righteous anger.... A reason to believe, a way to take the world by the throat and insist that there is more to this life than we have ever imagined.”
—Dorothy Allison (b. 1949)