Sat on the Pot of Meat/ the fleshpot (יָשַׁב עַל סִיר הַבָּשָׂר)

Sat on the Pot of Meat/ the fleshpot

Figuratively: living a life of comfort and luxury in the diaspora. A term used for a Jew living outside the State of Israel, because he prefers the comfort there over life in the Land of Israel.

("And the children of Israel said to them, Would that we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pot of meat, when we ate bread to the full; for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger" - Exodus 16:3 (the children of Israel to Moses and Aaron), and also: "When we leave Egypt a second time, we will not forget the pot of meat" - Herzl, The Jewish State, and also: "To the wilderness Moses has brought us from the pot of meat... / Were there no graves in Egypt? Tell, you weepers" - U.Z. Greenberg / Opening: From the days of our departure from Egypt until now)

Translation

Expression (Hebrew)

יָשַׁב עַל סִיר הַבָּשָׂר

Definition (Hebrew)

בְּהַשְׁאָלָה: חַי חַיֵּי רְוָוחָה וּמוֹתָרוֹת בַּגּוֹלָה. כִּינּוּי הַמְּיֻוחָס לִיהוּדִי הַמִּתְגּוֹרֵר מִחוּץ לִמְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל מִכֵּיוָן שֶׁהוּא מַעֲדִיף אֶת הַנּוֹחוּת שָׁם עַל פְּנֵי הַחַיִּים בָּאָרֶץ.

("וַיֹּאמְרוּ אֲלֵהֶם בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל מִי יִתֵּן מוּתֵנוּ בְיַד ה' בְּאֶרֶץ מִצְרַיִם, בְּשִׁבְתֵּנוּ עַל סִיר הַבָּשָׂר, בְּאָכְלֵנוּ לֶחֶם לָשֹׂבַע, כִּי הוֹצֵאתֶם אֹתָנוּ אֶל הַמִּדְבָּר הַזֶּה לְהָמִית אֶת כָּל הַקָּהָל הַזֶּה בָּרָעָב"- שְׁמוֹת טז ג (בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל לְמֹשֶׁה וְאַהֲרֹן ), וְכֵן:"בְּצֵאתֵנוּ שֵׁנִית מִמִּצְרַיִם,לֹא נִשְׁכַּח אֶת סִיר הַבָּשָׂר"- הֵרְצְל/ מְדִינַת הַיְּהוּדִים, וְכֵן:"לַמִּדְבָּר הֵבֵאנוּ מֹשֶׁה מִן סִיר הַבָּשָׂר.../הַמִבְּלִי אֵין קְבָרִים בְּמִצְרַיִם?תִּנּוּ הַבּוֹכִים"-אצ"ג/ פְּתִיחָה: מִימֵי צָאַתְנוּ מִמִּצְרַיִם עַד הֵנָּה)

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