גַּלְגַּל חוֹזֵר, גַּלְגַּל הוּא שֶׁחוֹזֵר בָּעוֹלָם

ביטוי (אנגלית)

Life has its ups and downs/the weel always comes full circle/ ups and downs/the wheel always comes full circle

הגדרה (אנגלית)

In life there are ups and downs or cyclicality. One who is above can be below and vice versa. Life presents situations of rises and falls.

(The wheel in the world is not that one who is rich today will be rich tomorrow, nor that one who is poor today will be poor tomorrow, but for one it brings down and for another it raises, as it is said (Psalms 75): 'For God is a Judge; He puts down one, and lifts up another' - Shemot Rabba (Vilna), Parashat Mishpatim, the commentary not from Aramaic translation: Rabbi Chiyya said to his daughter: When a poor man comes, greet him with bread so that your children will also be greeted with bread. She said to him: Are you cursing my son? He said to her: It is written: 'Because of this matter,' and the Tanna of Rabbi Ishmael said: The wheel is what returns in the world - Shabbat 56b, and similarly: I take from this and give to that, give to that and take from this, the wheel is what returns, Heaven forbid - Shalom Aleichem/ HaKedera, 175, and similarly: Man does not know what is with him, for the wheel returns in the world... - Agnon/ Elu Vaelu, and the crooked will be made straight, 68, and similarly: The wheel returns in the world. Yesterday a man was master over others and tomorrow a slave to his slaves - Agnon/ Yesterday, Tomorrow, 203, and similarly: But the wheel returns in the world, one goes up and another goes down, and his time comes to be among the descendents, the Merciful One will save him - Mordechai ben Yechezkel/ Sefer HaMa'asiyot, Fourth Part, Sixty Red Gold Coins, 185)