הִתְחִיל בִּגְנוּת וְסִיֵּים בְּשֶׁבַח

ביטוי (אנגלית)

To begin with censure and end with praise/ and those who came to scoff remained to pray

הגדרה (אנגלית)

At the beginning of his words, he spoke words of condemnation of a person or thing, and at the end of his words, he spoke in its praise.

("Of all the nights we immerse ourselves once, and this night twice, and according to the knowledge of the son of his father, he begins with censure and ends with praise, and he demands from the Aramaic, "My father is lost," until the entire passage is completed." - Mishnah Masechet Pesach 10:4)