Workshop / potter's house

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Workshop / potter's house

Workshop / potter's house

The workplace of a creator. Workshop. Figuratively: a source of culture. An intellectual or ideological circle. A school of thought (originally referring to the potter’s workshop).

(“And I went down to the workshop, and behold, he was working on the stones” – Jeremiah 18:3; and likewise: “Is the mouth the workshop for the nation’s soul? / The mouth is a source of blood, planting eternal life in it” – H.N. Bialik, HaMatmid, and likewise: “In the morning she would bring her goods to the market, and in the evening she would return to the workshop and settle accounts with it justly” – Agnon, Elu Ve’Elu, beginning of the use of the resin, 262.)

Translation

Expression (Hebrew)

בֵּית הַיוֹצֵר

Definition (Hebrew)

מְקוֹם עֲבוֹדָתוֹ שֶׁל מִי שֶׁיּוֹצֵר. בֵּית מְלָאכָה. בְּהַשְׁאָלָה: מַקּוֹר תַּרְבּוּתי. חוּג רַעְיוֹנִי אוֹ אִידֵאוֹלוֹגִי. אַסְכּוֹלָה (בַּמָּקוֹר הַכַּוָּנָה לְבֵית הַמְּלָאכָה שֶׁל הַקַּדָּר).

("וָאֵרֵד בֵּית הַיּוֹצֵר וְהִנֵּה הוּא עֹשֶׂה מְלָאכָה עַל הָאָבְנָיִם" – יִרְמְיָהוּ י"ח, ג, וְכֵן: "הַפֶּה בֵּית הַיּוֹצֵר לְנִשְׁמַת הָאֻמָּה? / הַפֶּה מָקוֹר דְּמִיָּה, הַנּוֹטְעִים בּוֹ חַיֵי עוֹלָמִים" – ח.נ. בְּיָאלִיק, הַמַּתְמִיד, וְכֵן: "בַּבֹּקֶר הָיְתָה מֵבִיאָה סְחוּרְתָה לַשּׁוּק וּבַעֲרֶב הָיְתָה שׁוֹבָה לְבֵית הַיוֹצֵר וְעוֹשָׂה עִמּוֹ חֶשְׁבּוֹן צֶדֶק" – עַגְנוֹן, אֵלּוּ וְאֵלּוּ, תְּחִלַּת שִׁמּוּשוֹ שֶׁל הַשָּׂרָף, 262)

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