יְמֵי חָורְפּוֹ

ביטוי (אנגלית)

Days of his youth/ a person's youth

הגדרה (אנגלית)

In literary language: one's former days or youth. As spring symbolizes youth and winter old age (originally: the rainy season and the beginning of green growth).

("When I was in the days of my youth, when God's secret was upon my tent; when the Almighty was yet with me, and my boys were around me" — Job 29:4; and likewise: "In the days of my youth — in the days of my former years. It is Aramaic; חרפי and אפלי" — Rashi on Job 29:4; and likewise: "May the radiance of the Lord be renewed each morning / and return to the days of his youth, and the memory of his days of youth" — H.N. Bialik, "On the Dawn"; and likewise: "In the days of my youth I lived with a non-Jewish farmer ... an old man of about ninety years" — Agnon, Tales of the Baal Shem Tov, Tears; and likewise: "Her name suited her better in her youth. Who calls a woman in the days of her youth by such a springlike name" — Natan Yonatan, "Until the End of the Indian Summer", Milissa)