יָשַׁב שִׁבְעָה

ביטוי (אנגלית)

Sit shiva/ to observe the seven days of mourning

הגדרה (אנגלית)

To observe the customs of mourning during the seven-day period after the death of a close family member.

("Rabbi Hisda said: A person's soul mourns for him for all seven days, as it is said, 'and his soul shall mourn over him.' And it is written (Genesis 50): 'and he made mourning for his father seven days.' Rabbi Yehudah said: For one who dies with no mourners, ten people go and sit in his place" - Shabbat 152a, and similarly: "And in the whole inn there was no one except a single traveler who had suffered bereavement, may the Merciful One protect us, and was sitting shiva" - Agnon, Yesterday, Previously, 376, and similarly: "Jerusalem sits as a house of mourners; it sits shiva, and visitors and comforters do not let her rest, day and night" - Yehuda Amichai, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Why Jerusalem)