A chick yesterday, an egg today/ he is retrogressing

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A chick yesterday, an egg today/ he is retrogressing

A chick yesterday, an egg today/ he is retrogressing

A term for someone who is not progressing and is regressing.

(A chick yesterday, an egg today? Yesterday he was spreading commandments and good deeds, now he is huddled (closed) like an egg" - Bereshit Rabbah 37:4)

Translation

Expression (Hebrew)

אֶתְמוֹל אֶפְרוֹחַ עַכְשָׁו בֵּיצָה

Definition (Hebrew)

כִּנּוּי לְמִי שֶׁאֵינוֹ מִתְקַדֵּם וְנָסוֹג לְאָחוֹר.

(אֶתְמוֹל אֶפְרוֹחַ עַכְשָׁו בֵּיצָה? אֶתְמוֹל מַפְרִיחַ מִצְווֹת וּמַעֲשִׂים טוֹבִים, עַכְשָׁו מְכוֹנֵן (סָגוּר) כַּבֵּיצָה"-בְּרֵאשִׁית רַבָּה לז ד)

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