אֵם הַדֶּרֶךְ

ביטוי (אנגלית)

crossroads / midroad

הגדרה (אנגלית)

Crossroads. A junction or fork in the road. The beginning of the way.

("For the king of Babylon stood at the mother of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he shook arrows, he consulted images, he looked in the liver."—Ezekiel 21:26; also: "On the mother of the way a tree stood / No blossom and no fruit"—Nathan Alterman / On the Mother of the Way; also: "On the mother of the roads, far from home / Almost at the edge of the west / Myrtle and jasmine, olive branches / Seem like a mirage"—Rachel Shapira / Beyond the Azure, Beyond the Radiance; also: "And sleepy winds will carry to the mother of the way / Old newspapers and a cloud"—Ehud Manor / Next Year; also: "The squills are arranged on the mother of the way"—Avi Koren / In Spring You Will Return Again)