Assembly House for…

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Assembly House for…

Assembly House for…

A place for gatherings of …, a place where people assemble and meet.

("Yossi ben Yo’ezer of Tzereda and Yossi ben Yochanan of Jerusalem received from them. Yossi ben Yo’ezer said: ‘Let your house be an assembly house for the wise, and be dust at their feet’ – Avot 1:4, and also: ‘His house was an assembly house for the lovers of Zion, and later for the political Zionists’ – Agnon, Ad Haneh, Oath of Allegiance, 184, and also: ‘The pious genius Rabbi Yeshaya Horowitz, owner of the holy Shlah…taught Torah to all the exiles. His house was open to his spirit, and students from the four corners of the earth, rich and poor, came to be dust at his feet. His house was an assembly house for the wise’ – Mordechai ben Yechezkel, Book of Stories, Part Four, Reception, 295)

Translation

Expression (Hebrew)

בֵּית וַעַד ל...

Definition (Hebrew)

מָקוֹם הִתְכַּנְּסוּת לְ…, מָקוֹם בּוֹ מִתְוַעֲדִים וְנִפְגָּשִים.

("יוֹסִי בֶּן יוֹעֵזֶר אִישׁ צֶרֶדָה וְיוֹסִי בֶּן יוֹחָנָן אִישׁ יְרוּשָׁלַיִם קִבְּלוּ מֵהֶם יוֹסִי בֶּן יוֹעֵזֶר אוֹמֵר יְהִי בֵּיתְךָ בֵּית וְעֵד לַחֲכָמִים וְהֱוֵי מִתְאַבֵּק בְּעָפֶר רַגְלֵיהֶם" – אֲבוֹת א ד, וְכֵן: "בֵּיתוֹ הָיָה בֵּית וַעַד לְחוֹבְבֵי צִיּוֹן וְאַחַר כָּךְ לַצִּיּוֹנִים הַמְּדִינִיִּים" – עַגְנוֹן, עַד הֵנָּה, שְׁבוּעַת אֱמוּנִים, 184, וְכֵן: "הָרַב הַגָּאוֹן הַחָסִיד רַבִּי יְשַׁעְיָה הוֹרְבִיץ, בַּעַל הַשְּׁלָ"ה הַקָּדוֹשׁ… הִרְבִּיץ תּוֹרָה לְכָל בְּנֵי הַגּוֹלָה. בֵּיתוֹ הָיָה פָּתוּחַ לְרוּחוֹת, וְתַלְמִידִים מֵאַרְבַּע כְּנָפוֹת הָאָרֶץ, בְּנֵי עֲנִיִּים וַעֲשִׁירִים, בָּאוּ לְהִתְאַבֵּק בְּעָפָר רַגְלָיו. בֵּיתוֹ הָיָה בֵּית וַעַד לַחֲכָמִים" – מָרְדְּכַי בֶּן יְחֶזְקֵאל, סֵפֶר הַמַּעֲשִׂיוֹת חֵלֶק רְבִיעִי, קַבָּלַת פָּנִים, 295)

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