Jastrow: 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 הכשר וכ׳ 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׳ אחת וכ׳ 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. CXLIV, 14) פ׳ של פורענות the calamity of divine visitation (pestilence, with ref. to Ps. CVI, 29 ותפרץ); פ׳ של גלות the calamity of exile; Ruth R. introd. פ׳ של מגפה; פֶּרֶץ של גלות. Lev. R. s. 34, end (ref. to Is. LVIII, 12) הפ׳ הזאת עלי היה לגודרה וכ׳ 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.— 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 שפרצום וכ׳ there were thirteen breaches in the Temple palisades (סוֹרֶג) made by the Greek kings; Y. Shek. VI, 50ᵃ top. Ber. 19ᵃ פִּרְצוֹתֵינוּ ופִרְצוֹת וכ׳, v. גָּדַר. B. Bath. 91ᵇ (ref. to גדרה, I Chr. IV, 23) זו סנהדרין שגדרו פִרְצוֹתֵיהֶן וכ׳ 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 &c.; a. fr.—[Num. R. s. 20 שיש פרצים, v. פָּרַץ.]—3) sect.—Pl. as ab. Ab. d’R. N. ch. V ונפרצו מהם שתי פ׳ and two sects proceeded from them. —4) spreading, increase. Gen. R. s. 73, a. e., v. פָּרַץ.