זָחָה דַּעְתּוֹ עָלָיו, זָחָה עָלָיו דַּעְתּוֹ (זְחִיחוּת דַּעַת)

ביטוי (אנגלית)

His mind was haughty over him (Arrogance of mind) to be proud/ haughty/ arrogant

הגדרה (אנגלית)

He was proud in his mind. He was happy and satisfied with himself in an ostentatious manner. He behaved with arrogance.

("As soon as he had commanded him to be killed, his mother fell upon him and embraced him and kissed him, and said to him: My son, go to your father Abraham and tell him, Thus said my mother: Let not your knowledge be taken away from you, saying, I have built an altar and have offered up my son Isaac, for our mother has built seven altars and offered up seven sons in one day, You are a test and I am a deed, until she was his kisser and his embracer, he cut him off and killed him for it" - Ikha Rava (Vilna) Parsha A, and so: "When the leaders of the generation and the leaders of the generation are arrogant, then the Holy One, blessed be He, raises up against them the sons of men who will divide and speak against them, so that their knowledge of them will not be scattered" - Rabbi Nachman From Breslau/ Likutei Moharan, Torah 15:15, and so on: "Why and why did they all march like this - I cannot tell you exactly...or because their knowledge has shone upon them in abundance" - Shalom aleichem/ Seventy-five thousand, 66, and so on: "Since Arya arrived at "Tsarorot" his knowledge has not shone upon him and he has not pursued the glory of "men" - Bialik/ Aryeh Baal Guff, 5, 21, and so on: "When the hour came, his knowledge fell upon him, and he said, "Give me that I may interpret things that have never been interpreted from the beginning" - Agnon/ Elo Ve Elo, Chavit of Rabbi Yochanan, 300, and so on: "If he is justified and renews the truth of the Torah and his knowledge shines upon him, he will be called a chapter of morality" - Chayim Sabato/ as black eyelids, 94)