Both Their Love, Their Hatred, and Their Jealousy Have Already Perished
An expression describing that all emotions—love, hatred, and jealousy—have already vanished, as if erased or lost over time.
(“For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; they have no further reward, for their memory is forgotten. Their love as well as their hatred and their envy have already perished.” — Ecclesiastes 9:5 And likewise: And the dead know nothing’—these are the wicked, who even in their lifetime are called dead, as it is said: ‘And you, slain wicked one, prince of Israel.’ ‘Their love as well as their hatred’—the verse speaks of the generation of the Flood. ‘Their love’—that they loved idolatry; ‘their hatred’—that they hated the Holy One, blessed be He.” — Yalkut Shimoni, Kohelet, remez 989)
Translation
Expression (Hebrew)
גַּם אַהֲבָתָם גַּם שִׂנְאָתָם גַּם קִנְאָתָם כְּבָר אָבָדָה
Definition (Hebrew)
הַכֹּל חוֹלֵף. כָּל הָרְגָשׁוֹת שֶׁהָיוּ וְכָל הָאֲנָשִׁים שֶׁהָיוּ חָלְפוּ עָבְרוּ.
("כִּי הַחַיִּים יוֹדְעִים שֶׁיָּמֻתוּ וְהַמֵּתִים אֵינָם יוֹדְעִים מְאוּמָה וְאֵין עוֹד לָהֶם שָׂכָר כִּי נִשְׁכַּח זִכְרָם. גַּם אַהֲבָתָם גַּם שִׂנְאָתָם גַּם קִנְאָתָם כְּבָר אָבָדָה"- קֹהֶלֶת ט ה, וְכֵן:"וְהַמֵּתִים אֵינָם יוֹדְעִים מְאוּמָה- אֵלּוּ רְשָׁעִים שֶׁאֲפִלּוּ בְּחַיֵּיהֶם נִקְרָאִים מֵתִים, שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר, וְאַתָּה חָלָל רָשָׁע נְשִׂיא יִשְׂרָאֵל, גַּם אַהֲבָתָם גַּם שִׂנְאָתָם, בְּדוֹר הַמַּבּוּל הַכָּתוּב מְדַבֵּר, גַּם אַהֲבָתָם- שֶׁהָיוּ אוֹהֲבִים לע"א, גַּם שִׂנְאָתָם שֶׁהָיוּ שׂוֹנְאִים להקב"ה"- יַלְקוּט שִׁמְעוֹנִי קֹהֶלֶת רֶמֶז תתקפט)