בַּר מִינָן

ביטוי (אנגלית)

Bar Minan/ God forbid/ excluding as/ apart from us/ deceased

הגדרה (אנגלית)

Figuratively: ‘may we be spared troubles; may it not come upon us.’ Or: a euphemistic designation for a deceased person (literally, from Aramaic: ‘excluded from us’).

(“As long as Israel do the will of the Omnipresent, the serpent lowers its head; and the opposite—God forbid.” — Or HaChaim, Genesis, chapter 3 And likewise: “It is a mitzvah to go to him and console him… for one of the consolations is that for every trouble there is something worse than it, and one must give thanks to God and ask Him to save him from something more grievous… and if one has lost a loved one—God forbid—he should find comfort in that he was not forced to apostatize and did not go astray into an evil culture.” — Pele Yoetz, letter נ, “Consolation” And likewise: “And the defender of the ‘God forbid’ arrived—the one who, while below, had his good inclination… and he stood beside the scales, on the right side.” — Y. L. Peretz, Three Gifts, p. 29 And likewise: “The ‘God forbid’ was carried on a bier of planks, with poles hastily joined for the occasion, as befits a respectable ‘God forbid.’” — H. N. Bialik, Aryeh Baʿal-Guf, ch. 6, v. 27 And likewise: “‘And illnesses?’ Meir called out… ‘God forbid, sir!’ the old woman was startled. ‘Why open one’s mouth to Satan?’” — Devora Baron, Exiles, p. 63)