Day off, yoma de-pagra/ holiday

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Day off, yoma de-pagra/ holiday

A day off; a day without work. (In Aramaic, pagra means being idle from work.)

("yoma d'mafgrei" (those who are idle from study) in the school of Rabban" - Shabbat 129b, and likewise: "As in the example that kings sometimes have on a day of idleness, they leave several animals to fight one another, and they stand and watch" - R. Nachman of Breslov / Likutei Moharan, Torah 233, and likewise: "On that day, a day off for a great holiday, as on ordinary days, the coronation of the Ottoman sultan in Constantinople" - Y. Burla / Kissufim, 127)

Translation

Expression (Hebrew)

יוֹם פַּגְרָה, יוֹמָא דְפַגְרָא

Definition (Hebrew)

יוֹם חֹופֶשׁ. יוֹם לְלֹא עֲבוֹדָה (פַּגְרָא בַּאֲרָמִית בְּטֵלָה מֵעֲבוֹדָה).

("יוֹמָא דְּמַפְגְּרֵי (שֶׁבְּטֵלִים מִלִּמּוּד) בֵּית רַבָּן"- שַׁבָּת קכט ע"ב, וְכֵן:"כְּמָשָׁל שֶׁיֵּשׁ אֵצֶל הַמְּלָכִים לִפְעָמִים בְּיוֹמָא דְּפַגְרָא, הֵם מַנִּיחִין כַּמָּה חַיּוּת שֶׁיְּנַצְּחוּ זֶה עִם זֶה, וְהֵם עוֹמְדִים וּמִסְתַּכְּלִים"- ר' נַחְמָן מִבְּרֶסְלָב/ לִקּוּטֵי מוהר"ן, תּוֹרָה רל"ג, וְכֵן:"בּוֹ בַּיּוֹם, יוֹם פַּגְרָא שֶׁל חַג גָּדוֹל, כִּבְיָמִים יָמִימָה, הַכְתָּרַת סוּלְטַן עוֹתְמַנְיָה בְּקוּשְׁטָא"- י.בּוּרְלָא/ כִּסּוּפִים, 127)

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