Great day

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Great day

Figuratively: a day on which something important or historic happens.

("And he said, behold, it is a great day; it is not time to gather the cattle. Water the sheep, and go, graze" — Jonathan's Targum to Genesis 29:7, and its Hebrew rendering. Likewise: "All of them were gathered in Rameses, and it was a great day, and from there they set out with a high hand, and Moses was at their head" — Ramban, Exodus 12:31. And likewise: "A sixty-year-old woman opens an eye and closes a latch / a great day waits at her gate that very day" — Didi Menusi, "Bat Shishim")

Translation

Expression (Hebrew)

יוֹם גָּדוֹל

Definition (Hebrew)

בְּהַשְׁאָלָה: יוֹם שֶׁבּוֹ מִתְרַחֵשׁ דָּבָר חָשׁוּב אוֹ הִסְטוֹרִי.

("וַאֲמַר הָא עִידַן יוֹמָא סַגִי לָא עִידַן לְמִיכְנַשׁ בְּעִיר אַשְׁקוּ עָנָא וְאֵיזִילוּ רְעוּ (וַיֹּאמֶר הִנֵּה זְמַן יוֹם גָּדוֹל לֹא זְמַן לֶאֱסֹף בְּהֵמָה הַשְׁקוּ הַצֹּאן וּלְכוּ רְעוּ"- תַּרְגּוּם יוֹנָתָן בְּרֵאשִׁית פֶּרֶק כט ז וְתַרְגּוּמוֹ לְעִבְרִית, וְכֵן:"וְנֶאֶסְפוּ כֻּלָּם בְּרַעַמְסֵס, וְהָיָה יוֹם גָּדוֹל, וּמִשָּׁם נָסְעוּ בְּיָד רָמָה וּמֹשֶׁה בְּרֹאשָׁם"- רַמְבָּ"ן שְׁמוֹת יב לֹא, וְכֵן:"בַּת שִׁשִּׁים פּוֹקַחַת עַיִן וְנוֹעֶלֶת נַעֲלֶה/יוֹם גָּדוֹל מַמְתִּין בְּפֶתַח זֶה הַיּוֹם שֶׁלָּהּ"- דִּידִי מְנוּסִי/ בַּת שִׁשִּׁים)

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