הֶעָבָר אַיִן הֶעָתִיד עֲדַיִן הַהוֹוֶה כְּהֶרֶף עַיִן אִם כֵּן דְּאָגָה מִנַּיִן

ביטוי (אנגלית)

The past is not the future, but the future is still as fleeting as the dawn of time. If so, what is the concern?

הגדרה (אנגלית)

The past has passed away and we are no more, the future has not yet arrived, and existence passes quickly, so why should we worry? A proverb against worry (the expression is attributed to Rabbi Abraham ibn Ezra).

("The past is gone and gone, the future is still, the future is still, if so, from where is the fish? - The Holy Shlomo (R. Isaiah the Levite Horowitz), and so: "It is written, A fish in the heart of a man is a fish, and the wise men interpret it as a fish, without his knowledge... For the wise have said, The past is gone, the future is still, a fish from where, get up and drink wine, that if "The word is too much for the past, what good is it for fishing?" - A wonderful counsellor/ The Lord's, and so on: "Blessed is the generation that has sinned by bringing a sacrifice on its roof, behold, the past is gone and the future is still to come, I must turn the hearts of all the people of his city and his country so that it will be pleasing to them" - Shu't Hatam Sofer, author of the collection of Teshuvah Simeon Fed, and so on: "For the past is not "The past and the future have not yet come to the agent, and the present is nothing but the present, the link between the past and the future" - Sefer Ha'Aqarim, Ma'mar 3, Chapter 27)