Expressions (A–Z)
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A canopy we set up for...
Figuratively, by way of borrowing: let us bring him thanks. Give him thanks and...
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A doubt does not remove a certainty
A doubt or any assumption cannot replace something certain that is not in questi...
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A man of clusters; a person of encyclopedic knowledge
A person of many talents and broad horizons. Someone knowledgeable in many and d...
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A woman does not brazenly lie to her husband’s face
A presumption that a woman will not brazenly lie to her husband about a matter i...
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A woman is only jealous of her friend's thigh
A woman is sometimes inclined to envy her friend's beautiful body. Jealousy amon...
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An honest man
A good and upright person.
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Bat Kol
See: "A Bat Kol went out and said."
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Because of Kamtza and Bar Kamtza, Jerusalem was destroyed
Because of Kamtza and Bar Kamtza, Jerusalem was destroyed. By extension: because...
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Better to live as two than to live widowed/ it is better to be in company than alone/ better to dwell in woe than in widowhood (unhappy matrimony is preferable to spinsterhood)
It is better to sit with two than as a widow. In the question: Marriage in perso...
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Death rather than solitude / Better death than loneliness
Either companionship or death. A person cannot live in isolation; life without f...
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