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Back to back

Back to back

Each one turns his back to the other or leans on the back of the other. By analogy: a matter conducted in such a manner that it prevents any possibility of risk in its execution or gives one side an advantage over the other.

(Indeed, what the Sages expounded (Eruvin 18a) regarding male and female, that two faces were created and were attached back to back. And indeed also that the androgynous man was created - Abravanel Genesis Chapter 1, and similarly: "The first and second turn their backs back to back, and after them the third, for a man turns away from his wife three times" - Sefer Hashem, here.)

Translation

Expression (Hebrew)

גַּב אֶל גַּב

Definition (Hebrew)

כָּל אֶחָד מַפְנֶה אֶת גַּבּוֹ לַשֵּׁנִי אוֹ נִשְׁעָן עַל גַּבּוֹ שֶׁל זוּלָתוֹ. בְּהַשְׁאָלָה: עִסְקָה הַנַּעֲשֵׂית בְּאֹפֶן שֶׁיֵּשׁ בּוֹ לִמְנֹעַ כָּל אֶפְשָׁרוּת שֶׁל סִכּוּן בְּבִצּוּעָהּ אוֹ לָתֵת לְאֶחָד הַצְּדָדִים יִתְרוֹן עַל הַשֵּׁנִי.

("וְאָמְנָם מָה שֶׁדָּרְשׁוּ זַ"ל (עֵרוּבִין יח ע"א) עַל זָכָר וּנְקֵבָה בִּרְאֵם שֶׁדּוּ פַּרְצוּפִים נִבְרְאוּ וְהָיוּ דְּבוּקִים גַּב אֶל גַּב. וְאָמְנָם ג"כ שֶׁנִּבְרָא אָדָם אַנְדְּרוֹגִינוֹס"- אַבְּרָבַנְאֵל בְּרֵאשִׁית פֶּרֶק א, וְכֵן:"אב"ג א' וּב' פּוֹנִים אֲחוֹרֵיהֶם גַּב אֶל גַּב, וְאַחֲרֵיהֶם ג', כִּי ג' פְּעָמִים פּוֹנִים אִישׁ מִן אִשְׁתּוֹ"- סֵפֶר הַשֵּׁם, פֹּה)

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