בֶּן תִּשְׁחֹרֶת

ביטוי (אנגלית)

Youth / Young man

הגדרה (אנגלית)

A boy or young man (possibly derived from the word shachar, meaning dawn, or shachor, meaning black, before the hair turns gray).

("An incident with a woman who lived in Rabban Gamliel’s neighborhood, and she had a ben tishchoret who died, and she wept at night, and Rabban Gamliel heard her voice and recalled the destruction of the Temple, and he wept until his eyelashes fell" – Eicha Rabba (Buber), Parasha 1; and likewise: "Rabbi Ishmael says: Be gentle to the head and accommodating to the youth, and receive every person with joy" – Avot 3:12)