זְרוֹק מַטֶּה לָאֲוִיר לְעִקָּרוֹ נוֹפֵל

ביטוי (אנגלית)

Cast your staff into the air and it will fall upon its root

הגדרה (אנגלית)

A staff thrown into the air ultimately falls upon its heavy end. By analogy: everything eventually returns to its source. The main element determines the direction in which things continue.

("And Moses saw the people, for he was Pharaoh (name of the people), and the people gathered around Aaron and all their people, and the people began to commit whoredom - throwing a mat in the air, and its root falling. Whoever began to commit whoredom, the whole family began to be hungry, their troubles began in time" - in the Wilderness of Rabbah (Vilna) Parashath Balak Parashath 2, and so on: "And he dwelt in the Wilderness of Paran, saying Rabbi Yitzhak threw a dirty rag into the air, and on its roots it rose, as it is written, "And she had an Egyptian family, and her name was Hagar, for you, and his mother took him a wife from the land of Egypt" - at the beginning of Rava (Vilna) Parashah and he saw Parashah 55)