Repeated and said (חָזַר וְאָמַר)
Repeated and said (חָזַר וְאָמַר)

Repeated and said

Repeated what he had already said.

("If someone seized by an epileptic fit said, ‘Write a bill of divorce for my wife,’ he has said nothing. If he said, ‘Write a bill of divorce for my wife,’ and then was seized by an epileptic fit and went back and said, ‘Do not write it,’ his later words mean nothing" — Gittin 7a; and also: "And Father goes back and says: / Leave him for a day — / he will leave you for two days / The wagon is moving; there is no stopping" — Meir Ariel, The Snake’s Nest)

Translation

Expression (Hebrew)

חָזַר וְאָמַר

Definition (Hebrew)

חָזַר עַל דְּבָרָיו. חָזַר שׁוּב עַל מָה שֶׁאָמַר כְּבָר.

("מִי שֶׁאֲחָזוֹ קוּרְדְּיָקוֹס וְאָמַר כִּתְבוּ גֵּט לְאִשְׁתִּי, לֹא אָמַר כְּלוּם. אָמַר כִּתְבוּ גֵּט לְאִשְׁתִּי וַאֲחָזוֹ קוּרְדְּיָקוֹס וְחָזַר וְאָמַר אַל תִּכְתְּבוּ אֵין דְּבָרָיו הָאַחֲרוֹנִים כְּלוּם"- גִּטִּין ז א, וְכֵן:"וְאַבָּא חוֹזֵר וְאוֹמֵר:/ תַּעַזְבֵהוּ יוֹם- יַעַזְבֶךָּ יוֹמַיִם/ הָעֲגָלָה נוֹסַעַת, אֵין עָצוּר"-מֵאִיר אֲרִיאֵל/ נֶשֶׁל הַנָּחָשׁ)

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