אִבֵּד עַצְמוֹ לָדַעַת, איבד עצמו לדעת

ביטוי (אנגלית)

To commit suicide

הגדרה (אנגלית)

Ended his life deliberately; committed suicide (the term “לדעת” implies consciously and intentionally).

("It is not the way of man to destroy himself knowingly." — Genesis Rabbah 82:8. Also: "Whoever abandons the principles we have established, which are founded on the pillars of the world, and seeks only in aggadah or midrash... is but destroying himself knowingly." — Maimonides, Letter to Rabbi Ovadiah the Convert, 432. Also: "She said innocently that if her hand were cut off, she would destroy herself knowingly." — S.Y. Agnon, At the Handles of the Lock, The Sand Hill, 286. Also: "In the wrath of the torrent / Amid the shards of shattered ice / With disheveled wings in desperate flight / They destroy themselves knowingly, the seagulls." — Natan Yonatan, The Tree’s Seagull. Also: "And indeed, when Ladar was found hanged in his room, the law of ‘destroying oneself knowingly’ did not apply, since he was not of sound mind, and thus there was no matter of ‘knowingly.’" — Haim Be’er, Feathers, 224.)