חוֹבֵשׁ בֵּית הַמִּדְרָשׁ, חָבַשׁ סַפְסַל הַלִּמּוּדִים

ביטוי (אנגלית)

Wears the Study Hall, Wears the Learning Bench/ Yeshiva student

הגדרה (אנגלית)

A yeshiva student. A person who regularly attends the study hall and studies Torah.

("Yesha, there is no Yesha except for the tongue of the oath, as it is said (Shemot 20) You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, I will not be a scepter, I will not be one of those sceptered in the house of the midrash, and in my house there is no bread and no robe - that there is no reading in my hand, no mishnah, and no Talmud" - Hagiga Yad A"a, and so: "I have not felt such a feeling since I was "I was clothed in the house of the midrash, and I was a youth with all the great ones on the night of Hosanna Rabbah" - Agnon/ On the Caps of the Lock, in Our Youth and in Our Old Age, 230, and also: "He clothed the benches of the house of the midrash for the rabbis and poured water on the hands of the rabbi, a fountain of life" - Life in the Well/ Feathers, 41)