To act with disrespect/ treat contempt

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To act with disrespect/ treat contempt

To act with disrespect/ treat contempt

To step or trample on the heel of one's foot. Figuratively: to show contempt or disrespect. To disregard someone's opinion. Performed out of habit (to tread means to step or strike).

(Rabbi Shimon ben Lakish said: What is meant by the verse (Psalms 40): 'Let the iniquity of my heels surround me'? The sins that a person treads upon in this world are accounted to him on Judgment Day." - Avodah Zara 18a. Also: "Even for a small and incidental matter, most writers tread upon it with their heels; we need much time to pour out all the thoughts of our spirit about it" - Berdyczewski/Writings, 2, 104. And: "Doctor Levi... was angry and reproved about matters that everyone treads upon with their heels" - Agnon/Ad Hena, 23. And: "To abandon the past and to erase the tablets,/ to tread upon the heels of the shackles,/ and then my ships will sail the sea,/ to distant and flowing shores" - Rachel/ Tablets of the Covenant and Shackles of the Past.)

Translation

Expression (Hebrew)

דָּשׁ בַּעֲקֵבָיו

Definition (Hebrew)

דָּרַךְ אוֹ רָמַס בַּעֲקֵב רַגְלוֹ. בְּהַשְׁאָלָה: זִלְזֵל. לֹא נָתַן דַּעְתּוֹ. מְבַצֵּעַ מִתּוֹךְ הֶרְגֵּל (לָדוּשׁ מַשְׁמָע לִדְרֹךְ אוֹ לַחֲבֹט).

("דְּאָמַר ר' שִׁמְעוֹן בֶּן לָקִישׁ, מַאי דִּכְתִיב )תְּהִלִּים מָט): עֲוֹן עִקְבִי יְסֻבֵּנִי?- עֲוֹנוֹת שֶׁאָדָם דָּשׁ בַּעֲקֵבָיו בָּעוֹלָם הַזֶּה- מְסֻבִּין לוֹ לְיוֹם הַדִּין"- עֲבוֹדָה זָרָה יח ע"א, וְכֵן:"וְגַם לָעִנְיָן קָטָן וּצְדָדִי, שֶׁרֹב הַסּוֹפְרִים דָּשִׁים אוֹתוֹ בְּעִקְבֵיהֶם, דָּרוּשׁ לָנוּ זְמַן הַרְבֵּה לְהָרִיק כָּל הָגוּת רוּחֵנוּ אוֹדוֹתָיו"- בֶּרְדִּיצֶ'בְסְקִי/ כְּתָבִים, ב, 104, וְכֵן:"הַדּוֹקְטוֹר לֵוִי...שֶׁאָדָם זוֹעֵם הָיָה וּמוֹכִיחַ עַל דְּבָרִים שֶׁהַכֹּל דָּשִׁים בְּעִקְבֵיהֶם"-עַגְנוֹן/ עַד הֵנָּה, 23, וְכֵן:"לִנְטֹשׁ אֶת הֶעָבָר וְהַלּוּחוֹת לְקַעְקֵעַ,/ לָדוּשׁ בְּעִקְבֵי הָאֲזִקִּים/ וּסְפִינוֹתַי אָז יַמָּהּ לְשַׁלֵּחַ./ לִמְחוֹזוֹת זֶרֶם וּרְחוֹקִים"- רָחֵל/ לוּחוֹת הַבְּרִית וַאֲזִקֵּי הֶעָבָר)

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