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ביטוי (אנגלית)

Intoxicating liquor/ the bitter drop

הגדרה (אנגלית)

A nickname for an intoxicating alcoholic beverage (from the original meaning of the word).

("They said about him, concerning the angel of death, whose head is full of eyes, at the hour of the patient's departure, he stands over his head with his sword drawn in his hand and a drop of bitter wine hanging from it, so that when a patient sees him, he trembles and opens his mouth and throws it into his mouth, from which he dies" - Avoda Zara 22b, and so: "Like a drop of bitter wine - like a drop of bitter wine "The dripping from the rim of the bowl" - Rashi Isaiah from Tu, and so on: "A woman who is tender and well-fed, whose face and her forehead and her eyes are always yellow from her love for the bitter drop" - Bialik/Aryeh Baal Guf, 3, 16)