בִּבְחִינַת: "שְׁבֹר חָבִית וּשְׁמֹר עַל יֵינָהּ"

ביטוי (אנגלית)

in the sense of: "break the barrel and keep its wine", you cannot eat cake and have it/ you cannot break the barrel and keep its wine.

הגדרה (אנגלית)

By analogy: a thing and its opposite. A demand that contains an internal contradiction. Or: it is impossible to enjoy both situations at once. 'You cannot eat the cake and also leave it whole.'

("And the Lord said to Satan, 'Behold, he is in your hand; only spare his life.' So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord and struck Job... Rabbi Yitzchak said: The pain of Satan is harder than that of Job; it is like a servant whose master says to him: 'Break the barrel but keep its wine.' Resh Lakish said: He is Satan, he is the evil inclination, he is the angel of death." - Bava Batra 16a)