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The manager or the one who stands at the head of a group of people. The person who heads an organization.
("I will choose their way and sit as head, and dwell like a king in the troop, as when he comforts mourners" - Job 29:25, and likewise: "the king's face-seers, the first to sit in the kingdom" - Esther 1:14, and likewise: "and they would set up a session after thirty days. Shimon ben Ḥakham, Gamliel ben Nasi, Ḥanina bar Ḥama shall sit at the head" - Ketubot 103b, and likewise: "but between one gathering and the next he enters and sits at the head and tells what he said to Deputy Minister So-and-so in Petersburg" - Agnon / Yesterday, the Day Before Yesterday, 303, and likewise: "and they praise him in the clarity of their language again and again, and he sits at the head of them all in the height of rank and greatness of worth, nodding his head and smiling" - H. Hazaz / The First Generations, 72)
Translation
Expression (Hebrew)
יוֹשֵׁב רֹאשׁ (יָשַׁב בְּרֹאשׁ)
Definition (Hebrew)
הַמְּנַהֵל אוֹ מִי שֶׁעוֹמֵד בְּרֹאשׁ קְבוּצַת אֲנָשִׁים. הָאָדָם שֶׁעוֹמֵד בְּרֹאשׁ אִרְגּוּן.
("אֶבֲחַר דַּרְכָּם וְאֵשֵׁב רֹאשׁ וְאֶשְׁכּוֹן כְּמֶלֶךְ בַּגְּדוּד כַּאֲשֶׁר אֲבֵלִים יְנַחֵם"- אִיּוֹב כט כֹּה, וְכֵן:"רֹאֵי פְּנֵי הַמֶּלֶךְ הַיֹּשְׁבִים רִאשֹׁנָה בַּמַּלְכוּת"- אֶסְתֵּר א יָד, וְכֵן:"וְהוֹשִׁיבוּ יְשִׁיבָה לְאַחַר שְׁלֹשִׁים יוֹם. שִׁמְעוֹן בְּנֵי חָכָם, גַּמְלִיאֵל בְּנֵי נָשִׂיא, חֲנִינָא בַּר חָמָא יֵשֵׁב בָּרֹאשׁ"- כְּתֻבּוֹת קג ע"ב, וְכֵן:"אֲבָל בֵּין אֲסֵפָה לַאֲסֵפָה הוּא נִכְנָס וְיוֹשֵׁב בָּרֹאשׁ וּמְסַפֵּר אֶת שֶׁאָמַר לִסְגַן מִינִיסְטֶר פְּלוֹנִי בְּפֵטֶרְבּוּרְג"- עַגְנוֹן/ תְּמוֹל שִׁלְשׁוֹם, 303, וְכֵן:"וּמְשַׁבְּחִים אוֹתוֹ בְּצַחוּת לְשׁוֹנָם לְמַעְלָה וּלְמַעְלָה, וְהוּא יוֹשֵׁב בְּרֹאשׁ כֻּלָּם בְּרוּם הַמַּעֲלָה וְגֹדֶל הָעֵרֶךְ, מְנַעְנֵעַ רֹאשׁוֹ וּמְחַיֵּךְ"- ח.הָזָז/ דּוֹרוֹת הָרִאשׁוֹנִים, 72)