חָזַר לְמוּטָב

ביטוי (אנגלית)

Returned to good conduct / to return to the right (straight) path/ to reform

הגדרה (אנגלית)

Began behaving well after previously behaving badly. Returned to proper conduct after acting improperly. Returned to a proper, normal way of life.

("If they do not repent, they will not be redeemed; rather, the Holy One, blessed be He, appoints over them a king whose decrees are as harsh as Haman's, and Israel repents and brings them back to better conduct" - Sanhedrin 97b; and similarly: "When the Torah expands and spreads ... then it brings the nation back to the better path, stripping away the crookedness in its heart" - Berdichevsky, Writings B, 14; and similarly: "People who had been sunk among the husks returned through him to better ways and merited to stroll in the Garden of Eden" - Agnon, These and Those, In My Tent, the Homily, 173)