at that time
By extension: at that time. At that moment.
("And there was an incident with someone who vowed concerning his impoverished sister, and they brought her to the house of Rabbi Ishmael and beautified her. Rabbi Ishmael said to him: My son, is it for this one that you vowed? He said to him: No, and Rabbi Ishmael permitted it. At that time Rabbi Ishmael wept and said: The daughters of Israel are beautiful, only poverty makes them unsightly. And when Rabbi Ishmael died, the daughters of Israel raised a lament and said: The daughters of Israel weep for Rabbi Ishmael in lamentation" – Nedarim 9:9, and also: "At that time the believers cast their eyes upon the daughters of Israel and wondered that Allah had given some of His beauty to the daughters of the infidels" – S.Y. Agnon, Only Yesterday, 279)
Translation
Expression (Hebrew)
בְּאוֹתָהּ הַשָּׁעָה
Definition (Hebrew)
בְּהַשְׁאָלָה: בְּאוֹתוֹ הַזְּמַן. בְּאוֹתוֹ הָרֶגַע.
("וּמַעֲשֶׂה בְּאֶחָד שֶׁנָּדַר מִבַּת אֲחוֹתוֹ וְהִכְנִיסוּהָ לְבֵית רַבִּי יִשְׁמָעֵאל וְיִיפוּהָ. אָמַר לוֹ רַבִּי יִשְׁמָעֵאל: בְּנִי, לְזוֹ נָדַרְתְּ? אָמַר לוֹ לָאו, וְהִתִּירוֹ רַבִּי יִשְׁמָעֵאל. בְּאוֹתָהּ שָׁעָה בָּכָה רַבִּי יִשְׁמָעֵאל וְאָמַר: בְּנוֹת יִשְׂרָאֵל נָאוֹת הֵן, אֶלָּא שֶׁהָעֲנִיּוֹת מְנַוַּלְתָּן. וּכְשֶׁמֵּת רַבִּי יִשְׁמָעֵאל הָיוּ בָּנוֹת יִשְׂרָאֵל נוֹשְׂאוֹת קִינָה וְאוֹמְרוֹת: בְּנוֹת יִשְׂרָאֵל אֶל רַבִּי יִשְׁמָעֵאל בְּכִנָּה"- נְדָרִים ט ט, וְכֵן: "בְּאוֹתָהּ שָׁעָה מְשַׁגְּרִים הַמַּאֲמִינִים עֵינֵיהֶם בִּבְנוֹת יִשְׂרָאֵל וּמִשְׁתוֹמְמִים שֶׁחִלֵּק אַלְלָה מִיָּפְיוֹ לִבְנוֹתֵיהֶם שֶׁל הַכּוֹפְרִים"-עַגְנוֹן/ תְּמוֹל שִׁלְשׁוֹם, 279)