הוֹשִׁיט יָד

ביטוי (אנגלית)

To stretch out one's hand to/ lend a hand to

הגדרה (אנגלית)

He stretched out his hand in front of me. He stretched out his hand in front of me. In a question: Help. Help.

("Rabbi Oshaya attacks her: "Did he not stretch out his hand to the basket to take a handful of wheat, and she lifted up a handful of barley in her hand - did she strike the ravens with her hands?" - Hagiga 21, and so: "A direction that is flawed in it requires one to exert oneself twice to stretch out his hand to the poor" - Panim Yafot Deverim, chapter 12, 7)