הִסִּיחַ אֶת דַּעֲתוֹ, הִסִּיחַ לִבּוֹ מ... (הַסָּחַת דַּעַת)

ביטוי (אנגלית)

To divert a person's attention from/ distract/ (lack of attention/ inattention)

הגדרה (אנגלית)

He inclined or distracted the concentration of his mind. He caused him to stop concentrating on his mind. He confused his knowledge. The passing of thought from one subject to another. Or in question: in reading. Without a single thought.

("Ditnina: 3. In the case of the distraction of the knowledge, these are: Messiah is a scorpion and a scorpion" - Sanhedrin 177a, and so: "When the priests are blessing the people, they shall not look at the people, and they shall not be distracted from the knowledge" - Harambam/ Sefer Ahabah, Hilchot Tefillah and Birkat Kohenim, Chapter Fourteen, 7, 209, and so: "And then this thing "He who is stronger than him, because he has not withdrawn his knowledge from this" - R. Nachman of Breslau/ Likutei Moharan, Torah 12, and so on: "First of all... let him withdraw his knowledge from you and pass over you and not interfere in your affairs for evil" - Bialik/ Aryeh Baal Guff, and so on, and so on: "But I am trying/ to withdraw her knowledge, you remember the olives The greens are bitter/ The sweet radish, the piles of strawberries" - Jonathan gave / A conversation with his mother, and so: "In such a time of trouble...is there no such thing as a knowledge that is given to us to ponder/ Or that hour in the grove of one of the queens of the witches/ Or a wind that blows in their girdle" - Jonathan gave / In this city of sin)