הֵנִיחַ חֵיק אִמּוֹ וְחִבֵּק חֵיק נָכְרִיָּה

ביטוי (אנגלית)

He left his mother's lap and embraced the lap of a stranger.

הגדרה (אנגלית)

In the question: He abandoned his family for the good of another family. Or: He abandoned his native land for the good of a foreign land.

("It is forbidden to sail to the Great Sea from now on for a priest who goes out into the land of the wild ram and goes out without the consent of the wise men. It is forbidden for him to shave... His brother said to her, "The man who laid his mother's lap and embraced the lap of a foreign woman, and blessed are those who were wounded, and you want to do as he goes out in it" - Yerushalmi Mo'ed Katan 3:1)