There Was Childishness in Me
I was childish; my behavior was immature.
("And the Rabbi said: 'Childishness was in me, and I was brazen-faced before Nathan the Babylonian'" — Bava Batra 21a; and likewise: 'And as the years passed, when I had eaten from the tree of knowledge of good and evil and my mind had matured... I saw that there was no childishness in me' — Berdyczewski, Writings, 2, 83; and likewise: 'How I loved her voice. Many times I opened the door so that she would ask who is there. Childishness was in me' — Agnon, On the Latch Handles, 5)
Translation
Expression (Hebrew)
יַלְדוּת הָיְתָה בִּי
Definition (Hebrew)
הָיְתָה בִּי יַלְדוּתִיּוֹת. הִתְנַהֲגוּתִי הָיְתָה לֹא בּוֹגֶרֶת.
("וְאָמַר רַבִּי: יַלְדוּת הָיְתָה בִּי וְהֵעַזְתִּי פָּנַי בְּנָתָן הַבַּבְלִי"- בָּבָא בָּתְרָא קָלָא ע"א, וְכֵן:"וּבִרְבוֹת הַיָּמִים כַּאֲשֶׁר אָכַלְתִּי מ'עֵץ הַדַּעַת טוֹב וָרֵעַ' וְשִׂכְלִי נִתְבַּשֵּׁל...רָאִיתִי כִּי לֹא יַלְדוּת הָיְתָה בִּי"-בֶּרְדִּיצֶ'בְסְקִי/ כְּתָבִים, ב, 83, וְכֵן:"מָה אָהַבְתִּי אֶת קוֹלָהּ.פְּעָמִים הַרְבֵּה פָּתַחְתִּי אֶת הַדֶּלֶת לְמַעַן תִּשְׁאַל מִי בָּא. יַלְדוּת הָיְתָה בִּי"- עַגְנוֹן/ עַל כַּפּוֹת הַמַּנְעוּל, 5)