גַּן עֵדֶן

ביטוי (אנגלית)

Garden of Eden/ paradise

הגדרה (אנגלית)

A spiritual place to which the righteous go after death according to tradition. By metaphor: a marvelous place causing great pleasures (originally: the setting of the story of Adam and Eve).

("And the LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and keep it" - Genesis 2:15, and also: "Oh, those days! For the quarrymen in autumn/ There was the smell of preserved cakes and for children/ Names from the Tanakh, for sins there was the sight of orchards/ And the sons of man were like the trees of the Garden of Eden" - Yehuda Amichai, Once I Wrote, Now and in Other Waters, and also: "Woe / How one word strikes / In the Garden of Eden and in Saul" - Ehud Manor, Woe, and also: "The woman with me is the fruit of the Garden of Eden / In my soul like a string she trembles" - John Manuel Sarath, translated by Yonatan Gefen)