טוֹבֵל וְשֶׁרֶץ בְּיָדוֹ

ביטוי (אנגלית)

One who immerses with a creeping creature in his hand/ religious hypocrite/ "cleans himself with water and grasps a worm-a source of defilement"/ pious fraud

הגדרה (אנגלית)

In the question: Returning to the past, continuing to commit sin. Whoever wants or pretends to return to the fold but does not do so is in fact in a state of being tempted to do one of his evil deeds (source: A situation in which a person wants to purify himself by means of ablution but still continues to hold on to the defilement of the earth, and therefore his ablution is of no use).

("A man who has a sin in his hand, and confesses it and does not turn away from it, what is he like? - To a man who holds a piece of land in his hand, and even if he were to bathe in it for all the days of his life, it would not benefit him. They threw (the piece of land) from his hand - a direction that he bathed in forty-four hours - from his hand, it would benefit him" - Ta'anit 16:1, and so: "Because it is a way and a way of leaving. And the way And he does not leave like a person who is immersed and has a worm in his hand" - Rashi Ikha 3 Ma, and so on: "Everyone who confesses in words and does not finish in his heart to leave - this is like a person who is immersed and has a worm in his hand, for baptism is of no benefit to him until he casts away the worm" - Harambam, Sefer Hamada, Hilchot Teshuvah, Chapter II, 3, 152, and so on: "This is like a thief of knowledge The highest, and like one who is baptized and has the earth in his hand" - Obadiah Yosef/ Branch of the Ancestral Tree, Relz, and Ken: "It is necessary to be more glorious among them, because whether he is blessed or not, he is like one who is baptized and has the earth in his hand" - Berdichevski/ Letters, 2, 78)