Day of Judgment/ Day of Atonement

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Day of Judgment/ Day of Atonement

A day on which people are judged; a day of trial and judgment. Also a term for Yom Kippur or for the judgment awaited by a person in the World to Come.

('What is the meaning of the verse (Psalm 49), “my iniquity at my heels surrounds me”? The sins that a person treads under his heels in this world surround him on the Day of Judgment' - Avodah Zarah 18a; and likewise: 'And what will he answer on the Day of Judgment? Woe, woe for that shame!' - Bialik, The Short Sixth Day, p. 163; and likewise: 'Thoughts of death entered his heart, thoughts of the Day of Judgment and of the life of the World to Come' - H. Hazaz, The First Generations, 117; and likewise: 'Only you went astray among the tombstones. Every grave / said only to you: then, on the Day of Judgment, / you will testify to everything and render account and judgment' - Leah Goldberg, Antigone).

Translation

Expression (Hebrew)

יוֹם הַדִּין

Definition (Hebrew)

יוֹם שֶׁבּוֹ נִשְׁפָּטִים. יוֹם בּוֹ נֶעֱרַךְ הַמִּשְׁפָּט. כִּינּוּי גַּם לְיוֹם הַכִּיפּוּרִים אוֹ לַמִּשְׁפָּט הַצָּפוּי לְאָדָם בָּעוֹלָם הַבָּא.

("מַאי דִּכְתִיב (תְּהִלִּים מָט) עֲוֹן עִקְבִי יְסֻבֵּנִי? עֲוֹנוֹת שֶׁאָדָם דָּשׁ בַּעֲקֵבָיו בָּעוֹלָם הַזֶּה - מְסֻבִּין לוֹ לְיוֹם הַדִּין"- עֲבוֹדָה זָרָה יח ע"א, וְכֵן:"וּמָה יַעֲנֶה בְּיוֹם הַדִּין?אוֹי אוֹי לְאוֹתָהּ בּוּשָׁה!"- בְּיָאלִיק/ הַיּוֹם הַשִּׁשִּׁי הַקָּצָר, ה קסג, וְכֵן:"הִרְהוּרֵי מִיתָה נִכְנְסוּ בְּלִבּוֹ,הִרְהוּרֵי יוֹם הַדִּין וְחַיֵּי עוֹלָם הַבָּא"-ח.הָזָז/ דּוֹרוֹת הָרִאשׁוֹנִים, 117, וְכֵן:"רַק אַתְּ תָּעִית בֵּין מַצֵּבוֹת. כָּל קֶבֶר/ אָמַר רַק לָךְ, כִּי אָז בְּיוֹם הַדִּין/ תָּעִידִי עַל הַכֹּל וְלֹא מֵעֵבֶר/ לְעוֹלָם זֶה תִּתְּנִי חֶשְׁבּוֹן וְדִין"- לֵאָה גּוֹלְדְּבֵּרְג, אַנְטִיגוֹנֶה, א)

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