פִּרְצָה

פִּרְצָה, פִּירְ׳f. (פָּרַץ) 1) breach, opening. B. Bath.53a פרץ פ׳וכ׳ if he widened the opening in the fence to go in and out by it. Succ.26a פ׳ קוראה לגנב a breach (occasion) invites the thief. Tanḥ. Vayishl. 5 אין ניתנין פ׳ לפני הכשרוכ׳ we must not leave an opening (offer a temptation) to an honest man, how much less to a thief. Y.Gitt.III, 45a היתה שם פ׳ אחתוכ׳ if there was a single gap (for the besieged to escape), it saves all (justifies the presumption that they are alive). Peah VII, 1 בצד פ׳ (Y. ed. הפרוצה) by the gap (entrance) in the fence; a. fr.Trnsf. inroad, calamity. Tanḥ. Bal. 13 יש פ׳ גדולה מזו is there a greater calamity than this (the death of Moses)? Yalk. Ps. 888 (ref. to פרץ, Ps. 144:14) פ׳ של פורענות the calamity of divine visitation (pestilence, with ref. to Ps. 106:29 ותפיץ); פ׳ של גלות the calamity of exile; Ruth R. introd. פ׳ של מגפה; פֶּרֶץ של גלות. Lev. R. s. 34, end (ref. to Is. 58:12) הפ׳ חזאת עלי היה לגודרהוכ׳ the Lord says, it was for me to repair that breach (to remedy the evil of poverty), and thou rosest to repair it (by charity); a. fr. 2) lawlessness, licentiousness, demoralization. Gen. R. s. 26 כל פ׳ שאינה … אינה פ׳ demoralization which does not proceed from the leaders, is no real demoralization; a. e.Pl. פְּרָצוֹת. Pes.56a, v. פָּרַץ. Midd. II, 3 שלש עשרה פ׳ היו בו שפרצוםוכ׳ there were thirteen breaches in the Temple palisades (סוֹרֶג) made by the Greek kings; Y.Shek.VI, 50a top. Ber.19a פִּרְצוֹתֵינוּ ופִרְצוֹתוכ׳, v. גָּדַר. B. Bath.91b (ref. to גדרה, 1 Chr. 4:23) זו סנהדרין שגדרו פִרְצוֹתֵיהֶןוכ׳ this refers to the Sanhedrin that healed the breaches of Israel. Yalk. Ez. 352; Ruth R. introd. שאלו עליתם בפ׳וכ׳ if you had stood in the breaches as Moses did ; a. fr.(Num. R. s. 20 שיש פרצים, v. פָּרַץ) 3) sect.Pl. as ab. Ab. dR. N. ch. V ונפרצו מהם שתי פ׳ and two sects proceeded from them. 4) spreading, increase. Gen. R. S. 73, a. e., v. פָּרַץ.