בַּעַל הָאֲבֵדָה מְחַזֵּר אַחַר אֲבֵדָתוֹ

ביטוי (אנגלית)

The Owner of the Lost Item Seeks After His Lost Item

הגדרה (אנגלית)

A person who has lost something tends to search for his lost item. By analogy: the man is the one who customarily pursues the woman.

(Because it is the way of a man to pursue a woman, and it is not the way of a woman to pursue a man. The analogy: for a man who lost an item, who returns after whom? The owner of the lost item returns after his lost item" - Kiddushin 2b, and similarly: "For love is the characteristic of a man and fear is the characteristic of a woman... For love goes and always pursues fear, because the owner of the lost item returns after his lost item" - Rabbi Nachman of Breslov / Likutei Moharan, Torah 5, and likewise: "The principle rooted in the nature of man's creation still is that the owner of the lost item, from whom the woman was created as his rib, returns after his lost item" - HaShofet Chaim Cohen / Selected Writings, Bursi 1992, 477)