בֵּית הַחַיִּים

ביטוי (אנגלית)

Cemetery / graveyard

הגדרה (אנגלית)

A cemetery. Graveyard, in figurative or elevated language.

(“Because those who observe the stars cannot suspend power in Mars to destroy, kill, or annihilate… it is impossible by the power of the constellations… so that they do not say it was under Mars’ rule at all but under Jupiter’s rule, which is the cemetery” – Rabbeinu Bachya, Exodus 11; and likewise: “It is customary to tear immediately after his death, for it is the way of honor that they carried him in torn garments, but I saw in Fada that they would perform tearing at the cemetery” – Leket Yosher, Part B (Yoreh De’ah), p. 95, and likewise: “Even if they purchase the cemetery afterward when they have a share in it, because the sale was not dedicated for them in the cemetery…” – Shut Avkat Rokhel, siman 115; and likewise: “A decade did not pass, and the city of Prague expanded and encompassed the cemetery” – Y.L. Peretz, Humiliated Eyes, 192; and likewise: “Old cemetery exists in the west of Safed with many caves, and the Ari z”l said that righteous and holy people are buried there” – Agnon, Elu Ve’Elu, Haminyan, 357; and likewise: “What will now become of the Kaddish… she spread her hands before the cemetery and burst into tears” – Dvora Baron, Golim, 79.)