Expressions (A–Z)
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Grew Upon the Knees of...
Figuratively: to be raised, educated, or nurtured under the influence or protect...
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Gurim of the Ari
The disciples of the Holy Ari. The Ari is Rabbi Yitzchak Luria who was a great K...
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Gutter-cleaner, despised occupation
A person who engaged in cleaning gutters. By analogy: a simple person (a 'gutter...
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Guzma b'alma
Words of exaggeration and mere fabrications. Common scattered talk (in Aramaic,...
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He ate the rotten fish and was also driven out of the city
See: "Eats a foul fish, is whipped and pays a hundred maneh."
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He decreed his destruction
Indirectly caused the death of a person or the ruin of a place.
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He determined in his mind
See: "he finished in his heart."
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He Discovered America
By analogy: Discovered something that was already known to everyone before.
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He drove out thoughts from his heart
To hide or to ignore troubling or distressing thoughts, as if driving them out o...
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He lays the blame on him; he shifts the guilt onto…
To transfer responsibility or blame onto another.
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