דְּבָרִים שֶׁלֹּא מִן הָעִנְיָן

ביטוי (אנגלית)

Words Unrelated to the Matter

הגדרה (אנגלית)

The utterance of words that are not relevant and do not pertain to the subject being discussed.

("And this author has digressed to other matters not from the subject, and they themselves are without reason" - The Ra'avad's objections to the Rambam, Laws of Impurity of a Dead Body 17:3, and similarly: "He stands and tells the afflictions of his heart; he digresses from the subject and mixes in words not from the matter" - Agnon, 'Ir u'Meloah' (City and Its Fullness), p. 442, and similarly: "In a state of affairs such as this, a discussion in a strange topic is altogether unrelated to the subject" - Beer, 'El Makom ShehaRuach Holech' (To the Place Where the Spirit Goes), p. 112)