דִּירַת קֶבַע

ביטוי (אנגלית)

A Permanent Residence

הגדרה (אנגלית)

A dwelling used for habitation in a fixed manner. The opposite of a temporary dwelling.

(“Up to twenty cubits, a person may make his dwelling a temporary hut; above twenty cubits, one may not make a temporary dwelling, only a permanent one. Similarly, the festival sukkah is for the holiday, and a house on a ship is exempt from a mezuzah, because they are not built as a permanent dwelling. On the day that the strength of the Hebrew language departed from the House of Life and spread into foreign languages as a permanent dwelling, it was, in the eyes of the remnants of the destroyed cities, as if the Shekhinah was removed from Israel; that day is weighed in my eyes like a day of the Shekhinah’s exile.”)