בֵּית הַיוֹצֵר

ביטוי (אנגלית)

Workshop / potter's house

הגדרה (אנגלית)

The workplace of a creator. Workshop. Figuratively: a source of culture. An intellectual or ideological circle. A school of thought (originally referring to the potter’s workshop).

(“And I went down to the workshop, and behold, he was working on the stones” – Jeremiah 18:3; and likewise: “Is the mouth the workshop for the nation’s soul? / The mouth is a source of blood, planting eternal life in it” – H.N. Bialik, HaMatmid, and likewise: “In the morning she would bring her goods to the market, and in the evening she would return to the workshop and settle accounts with it justly” – Agnon, Elu Ve’Elu, beginning of the use of the resin, 262.)