הוּא בְּשֶׁלּוֹ וְהֵם בְּשֶׁלָּהֶם

ביטוי (אנגלית)

He is his and they are theirs.

הגדרה (אנגלית)

He is in his own interests and they are in theirs. Or: He remained true to his position and they remained true to theirs. Each one insisted on his knowledge.

("Lift me up and cast me into the sea, and the sea shall be calm for you, for I know that this great storm is mine for you" - Jonah 1:12 (Jonah to the sailors of the ship), and so: "The six ... said: We are in our own land and they are not in theirs (we will be in our own land and they in theirs)" - Barachot 8:1, and so: "The old woman is troubled in her own land, and the old man in his" - Shaul Tchernykhovsky/ Joy is near, and so on: "And the woman - she is in her own, absorbed in her basket and in her murmur, and when the sixth hour is clear, they take her out in idle talk, in a house of play" - Dvora Baron/ Goliim, 121, and so on: "Come, sleep/ I am in mine and you in yours/ And the angel of forgetfulness will scatter/ Between me and you a mist "Lakh/ Such that in the early morning of November he sails in the depths" - Nathan Jonathan/ Poems for the Spirit)