הֲלוּם יָגוֹן ,הֲלוּם צַעַר

ביטוי (אנגלית)

Struck by sorrow, struck by grief

הגדרה (אנגלית)

A painful blow. A great pain and sorrow (to strike means to strike. To strike means to strike).

("A blow is a grief, a small one is a little one of the learned" - Rabbi Eliyahu Mizrahi (Ra'am) Siman 5, and so: "A blow is sad and a grief is terrible/ When an old mother stands and speaks her word/ The tears flow from your mother's eyes" - Raphael Kalachkin/ In the Negev Steppes)