גִּלְגּוּל מְחִלּוֹת

ביטוי (אנגלית)

Rolling of the Tombs/ underground rolling / rolling of the dead (of the buried dead to Resurrection in the Holy Land)

הגדרה (אנגלית)

The rolling of the dead in the tombs underground from the Diaspora to the Land of Israel at the time of the Resurrection of the Dead. By analogy: the difficult tumblings of those wrapped in many hardships.

("If so, have the righteous lost who are buried outside the Land?! But what does the Holy One, Blessed be He, do? He makes for them tunnels in the earth... and they roll and come until they arrive in the Land of Israel" - Bereshit Rabba 93, and also: "There are no times when one goes outside the Land alive except with the sorrow of rolling of the tombs" - Rashi on Genesis 49:29, and also: "Who rolls the rolling of the tombs in the depths of the earth? He says: Jacob - he will succeed!" - Shalom Aleichem / 75,002, and also: "For until the days of rolling of the tombs how far still are the days" - Berdichevsky / The Exit, and also: "The letters come after the rolling of the tombs" - Letters of Bialik, and also: "Rolling of the tombs of this kind I would not even wish upon my enemies" - Agnon / Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, 185, and also: "Is it not a brief vision / He cannot see / How my soul / Follows him in the nights / In the rolling of the tombs" - N. Shemer / My Young Tragedy)