Hotel / Hostelry

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Hotel / Hostelry

Hotel / Hostelry

A place for lodging and leisure for payment.

("Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place for travelers, that I might leave my people and go away from them, for they are all adulterers, a band of traitors" – Jeremiah 9; and likewise: "A person said: while I still exist I will build myself a lodging house for my resting place and sit, and he built a lodging house for his resting place outside Mount Moriah" – Pirkei de-Rabbi Eliezer (Higer), ‘Horev’, chapter 20; and likewise: "And when we came to the inn, meaning this world, which is nothing but a lodging house for the night" – Noam Elimelech, Genesis, Parashat Miketz; and likewise: "Regarding the presumption of rental of houses, that R. Tovia had rented a travelers’ lodging house" – Responsa Emek Halakha, Part I, section 20)

Translation

Expression (Hebrew)

בֵּית מָלוֹן, מְלוֹן אוֹרְחִים

Definition (Hebrew)

מָקוֹם לְאֵרוּחַ וְנֹפֶשׁ בְּתַשְׁלוּם.

("מִי יִתְּנֵנִי בַמִּדְבָּר מְלוֹן אֹרְחִים וְאֶעֶזְבָה אֶת עַמִּי וְאֵלְכָה מֵאִתָּם כִּי כֻלָּם מְנָאֲפִים עֲצֶרֶת בֹּגְדִים"- יִרְמְיָהוּ ט, וְכֵן: "אָדָם עַד שֶׁאֲנִי בְּעוֹדִי אֶבְנֶה לִי בֵּית מְלוֹן לְרִבְצִי וְאֵשֵׁב וּבָנָה בֵּית מָלוֹן לְרִבְצוֹ חוּץ לָהָר הַמּוֹרִיָּה"- פִּרְקֵי דֶּרְבִּי אֱלִיעֶזֶר (הִגֵּר), "חוֹרֵב" פֶּרֶק כ, וְכֵן: "וְהָיָה כִּי בָּאנוּ אֶל הַמָּלוֹן, רָצָה לוֹמַר הָעוֹלָם הַזֶּה שֶׁאֵינוֹ אֶלָּא בֵּית מָלוֹן לָלוּן"- נֹעַם אֱלִימֶלֶךְ בְּרֵאשִׁית פָּרָשַׁת מִקֵּץ, וְכֵן: "בָּעִנְיָן חֶזְקַת שְׂכִירוּת בָּתִּים, שה"ר טוֹבִי' הָיָה לוֹ בִּשְׂכִירוּת בֵּית מְלוֹן אוֹרְחִים"- שׁוּ"ת עֵמֶק הֲלָכָה חֵלֶק א סִימָן כ)

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