הִרְהֵר תְּשׁוּבָה

ביטוי (אנגלית)

To ponder repentance

הגדרה (אנגלית)

A thought arose in him to repent. He felt remorse and thought about improving his deeds or stopping doing bad deeds.

("All those who contemplated returning before they left the world after they received punishment are gathered in this wall, and they stand there until the day is holy on the Sabbath evening, and the spirits that are in the Garden of Eden within them are burning." - Compendium of Midrash (Eisenstein) Garden of Eden; Gehenna, 85, and so: "A great call for returning and for contemplation Return to him is the great sin and the great burden of sin, which Western Judaism has maintained... in relation to the Hebrew language" - Bialik/ on "The Wisdom of Israel", and so on: "And the woman went out from the house of her husband, and in her heart were thoughts of returning. And she accepted in her strength the foundations of returning, and she returned to the Lord with a heart of peace. And he sat down In heaven, who has no pleasure in the death of the wicked, for if he turns from his way, he also receives its return" - Mordecai ben Yehezkel/ Sefer Hamaoshiyot Helek Rabi'i, Ma'asheh Adam, 142, and so: "In the verses that he read in the law (to Israel) there was found a sign for his deeds...and if he passed over it he found a sign for sin in one of the verses "He read, and often he would reflect on his return" - Life of His Grandmother/ Like the Flashes of Dawn, 14)