Return to your steps/ take back your words/ Recant
Come back again. Go back to where you were before.
("Rabban said: It happened that a man was riding on horseback on the Sabbath, and Rabbi Meir was walking behind him to learn Torah from him. He said to him: Meir, turn back, for I have broken my gate with the heels of my horse until this is the Sabbath boundary. He said to her: You also turn back. -He said to her: And I did not say to you: I heard from behind the curtain. "The playful sons returned - outside from behind" - Hagiga Tu A"a, and so on: "And he would return to his rear from his old age, who would be ashamed to see himself when he was shaved" - Agnon/ Tamol Shilshom, 263)
Translation
Expression (Hebrew)
חֲזֹור לַאֲחוֹרֶיךָ
Definition (Hebrew)
חֲזֹור בַּחֲזָרָה. לֵךְ לְהֵיכָן שֶׁהָיִיתָ קֹדֶם לָכֵן.
("תְּנוּ רַבָּנָן: מַעֲשֶׂה בְּאַחֵר שֶׁהָיָה רוֹכֵב עַל הַסּוּס בְּשַׁבָּת, וְהָיָה רַבִּי מֵאִיר מְהַלֵּךְ אַחֲרָיו לִלְמוֹד תּוֹרָה מִפִּיו. אָמַר לוֹ: מֵאִיר, חֲזֹר לְאַחֲרֶיךָ, שֶׁכְּבָר שִׁעַרְתִּי בְּעִקְבֵי סוּסִי עַד כָּאן תְּחוּם שַׁבָּת. אָמַר לֵהּ: אַף אַתָּה חֲזֹר בָּךְ. -אָמַר לֵהּ: וְלֹא כְּבָר אָמַרְתִּי לְךָ: כְּבָר שָׁמַעְתִּי מֵאֲחוֹרֵי הַפַּרְגּוֹד שׁוּבוּ בָּנִים שׁוֹבָבִים- חוּץ מֵאַחַר"- חֲגִיגָה טוּ ע"א, וְכֵן:"וְהָיָה חוֹזֵר לַאֲחוֹרָיו מֵאוֹתוֹ הַטַּעַם, שֶׁהָיָה מִתְבַּיֵּשׁ לְהַרְאוֹת עַצְמוֹ כְּשֶׁהוּא מְגֻלָּח"- עַגְנוֹן/ תְּמוֹל שִׁלְשׁוֹם, 263)