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  • The walls were cracked and the roof caved in, Graetz noted, adding that a local rabbi described it "like the hurban habayit [destruction of the Temple]."

    J. Weekly 2010

  • They don't know what msirut nefesh a real baal habayit has.

    Hirhurim - Musings 2009

  • A phrase sums up this vision: baal habayit histhtageya ( "the boss has gone mad").

    Le Monde diplomatique - English edition 2009

  • So he has Arafat’s name sometimes with an extra alef, sometimes without, sometimes as “YArafat;” we have Temple Mount as har habayit, but when that doesn’t work, he tries har bayit.

    Torah without science 2003

  • The New York Times reported of Operation Cast Lead on the 19th January: "The Israeli theory of what it tried to do here is summed up in a Hebrew phrase heard across Israel and throughout the military in the past weeks: 'baal habayit hishtageya,' or 'the boss has lost it.'

    WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2009

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