To strike (sink) roots / take root/ Hit the root
Open the root system in the soil. In the question: Acclimatize well. Shake it off. Make it break.
("If Israel were like a lily, it would blossom like a lily, and its roots would spread out like a cedar" - Hosea Yad, and so on: "Its roots were never cut off/ A stranger and a sojourner in the land!/ They left their posts here alone" - Shaul Tchernikhovsky/ on the expulsion of the Russians, and so on: "Are the roots cut off forever?/ Even the waters have passed us by/ For the dove, for the olive tree "Green is desired until the end of days" - Nathan Yonatan/ Singing the Rain in the Paths)
Translation
Expression (Hebrew)
הִכָּה שֹׁרֶשׁ
Definition (Hebrew)
פִּתֵּחַ מַעֲרֶכֶת שָׁרָשִׁים בָּאֲדָמָה. בְּהַשְׁאָלָה: הִתְאַקְלֵם טוֹב. הִתְעָרָה בַּנַּעֲשֶׂה.נַעֲשָׂה נָפוֹץ.
("אֶהְיֶה כַטַּל לְיִשְׂרָאֵל יִפְרַח כַּשּׁוֹשַׁנָּה וְיַךְ שָׁרָשָׁיו כַּלְּבָנוֹן"- הוֹשֵׁעַ יָד ו, וְכֵן:"לֹא הִכָּה מֵעוֹלָם שָׁרָשָׁיו/ נוֹגֵשׂ וְזָר בָּאָרֶץ!/ מַצֵּבוֹת הִשְׁאִירוּ פֹּה בִּלְבַד"- שָׁאוּל טְשֶׁרְנִיחוֹבְסְקִי/ עַל מִגְרַשׁ הָרוּסִים, וְכֵן:"הַנָּכֶה שָׁרָשִׁים לְעוֹלָם?/ עַד צַוָּאר עֲבָרוּנוּ הַמַּיִם/ לְיוֹנָה, לְטֶרֶף זַיִת יָרֹק נְיַחֵל עַד קֵץ הַיָּמִים"- נָתָן יוֹנָתָן/ זִמְרַת הַמֶּטֶר בַּדְּרָכִים)