הַשָּׂטָן מְרַקֵּד בֵּינֵיהֶם

ביטוי (אנגלית)

The Satan dances among them/ they are quarrelling among themselves

הגדרה (אנגלית)

Figuratively: They are quarrelling and fighting among themselves. Hatred dwells between them. Or: a disaster of strife. The attribute of justice intensifies.

("Satan came and danced among them and killed Vashti" - Meghal Ya'ab, and so on: "And do not stand before the ox at the hour when it rises from the lake, because Satan dances between its horns. Rabbi Shmuel said: In the black ox, and in the days of Nissan" - Pesach Kib, and so on: "Which of the following will fear the prayer and great fear will come upon him, when he sees Satan dances near him, and the law is stretched out high above him" - Bialik/ A lion on a body, etc., and so on: "It is good for me that a great quarrel will arise in its midst and we will fall apart in great hearts, and Satan will dance among us, and who knows what its end will be" - Y. Burla/ Kisupim, 287, and so on: "The knowledge of his friends was not comfortable "They were... Satan began to dance among them... The division of power was taken away" - Agnon/ Tamol Shilshom, 243, and so on: "In asking you, let love and brotherhood, peace and fellowship always reign among you, and do not let the devil of division dance among you, who has divided so many congregations and destroyed so many synagogues" - Chaim his grandmother/ as black eyelids, 136)