יֵשׁ אֲשֶׁר, יֵשׁ ו...

ביטוי (אנגלית)

There are times when/ it happens that/ sometimes

הגדרה (אנגלית)

Sometimes it happens that..., at times...

("And there are times when the cloud would remain over the Tabernacle for a number of days; according to the LORD's command they would camp, and according to the LORD's command they would set out" - Numbers 9:20; and likewise: "If you do us harm, though we have done you no harm, for yesh asher means "because," as in "what she did to the Asherah"" - Radak, Genesis 26:29; and likewise: "Sometimes the memories seem like nothing but vanity / for a radiating mist softly envelops / the region of the past, joy and sorrow / the pain of the wounds and the comfort of refuge" - Rachel / Yesh Ve-Nidmeh; and likewise: "And there are times when she goes to see the new houses that rose from the sands" - Agnon / Yesterday, The Day Before Yesterday, 347; and likewise: "There are times when this happens to a person of Israel, that he loathes the vanities of the world and cleaves to the Creator in holiness, fervor, and self-sacrifice" - H. Hazaz / A Person of Israel, 169; and likewise: "From the gray fortress stone he built himself a house / by the stream he set up a mill, sent the produce of fields / and his power out upon the sea in merchant ships. / But there are times when he leaves his tool of labor / and suddenly becomes another man's" - Nathan Yonatan / Where Are They Still)