To roll words with him / to enter into conversation with him (גִּלְגֵּל עִמּוֹ בִּדְבָרִים)
To roll words with him / to enter into conversation with him (גִּלְגֵּל עִמּוֹ בִּדְבָרִים)

To roll words with him / to enter into conversation with him

To converse or talk with someone freely and deeply, as if rolling words back and forth with them.

("God said to Moses: Until you made the Tabernacle, I was rolling words and the leprous and the discharges mixed among you; now that you have made the Tabernacle and I dwell among you, separate them from you and send out from the camp every leper, every one with discharge, and every unclean to the soul" - Bamidbar Rabba (Vilna) Parashat Naso, chapter 7, and similarly: "Thus they would sit and roll words... and would listen within so that new Torah insights and mundane conversation would arise from the mouth of the 8th Judah" - Y. Burla / Kisufim, 94)

Translation

Expression (Hebrew)

גִּלְגֵּל עִמּוֹ בִּדְבָרִים

Definition (Hebrew)

שׂוֹחֵחַ אִתּוֹ שִׂיחָה קַלָּה הַמִּתְגַּלְגֶּלֶת מִנּוֹשֵׂא לְנוֹשֵׂא.

("אָמַר הָאֱלֹהִים לְמֹשֶׁה: עַד שֶׁלֹּא עֲשִׂיתֶם אֶת הַמִּשְׁכָּן הָיִיתִי מְגַלְגֵּל בַּדְּבָרִים וְהָיוּ הַזָּבִים וְהַמְּצֹרָעִים מְעֹרָבִים עִמָּכֶם, עַכְשָׁו שֶׁעֲשִׂיתֶם אֶת הַמִּשְׁכָּן וַאֲנִי מִשְׂרָה שְׁכִינָתִי בֵּינֵיכֶם, הִפְרִישׁוּ אוֹתָם מִכֶּם וִישַׁלְּחוּ מִן הַמַּחֲנֶה כָּל צָרוּעַ וְכָל זָב וְכֹל טָמֵא לָנָפֶשׁ"- בְּמִדְבַּר רַבָּה (וִילְנָא) פָּרָשַׁת נָשָׂא פָּרָשָׁה ז וְכֵן:"כָּךְ הָיוּ יוֹשְׁבִים וּמְגַלְגְּלִים דְּבָרִים...וְהָיוּ שׁוֹמְעִים תּוֹךְ כְּדֵי כָּךְ חִדּוּשֵׁי תּוֹרָה וְשִׂיחַת חֻלִּין מִפִּי ח' יְהוּדָה"- י.בּוּרְלָא/ כִּסּוּפִים, 94)

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