Expressions (A–Z)
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And some say that...
See: "Some say that...".
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B
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Bat Kol
See: "A Bat Kol went out and said."
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Because of a trifle (because of a nail, a thing of no value) the city of Beitar was destroyed / to spoil the ship for a ha'porth of tar
Figuratively: Because of gossip or hatred among brothers, a great disaster was c...
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Because of Kamtza and Bar Kamtza, Jerusalem was destroyed
Because of Kamtza and Bar Kamtza, Jerusalem was destroyed. By extension: because...
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Better to live as two than to live widowed/ it is better to be in company than alone/ better to dwell in woe than in widowhood (unhappy matrimony is preferable to spinsterhood)
It is better to sit with two than as a widow. In the question: Marriage in perso...
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Biblical laws/ religious (Torah) subjects
Halakhot or Midrashim and ideas whose source is in the Torah, in the Talmud, and...
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Da'chlei Nahma b'Nahma
See: “He ate bread with bread” (i.e., lived very frugally, sustaining himself on...
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Daily Page
See: "the daily page."
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Death rather than solitude / Better death than loneliness
Either companionship or death. A person cannot live in isolation; life without f...
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Derabanan
See: "Obligation from the Torah (de'oraita)."
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