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# mediate

«mediate» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **to help two people or groups who disagree to talk and…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (mediate, mediates, mediated, mediating)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To mediate is to help two people or groups who disagree to talk and find an agreement, without taking sides. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mediate/#m1)

2) (formal) To be the means by which something passes or happens between two things. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mediate/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In Sefer Yetzirah, to mediate means to stand between two opposites and bring them into balance, as air does between water and fire. Interpretation: The book teaches that the letter Aleph, or air, is the peacemaker between silent water (Mem) and hissing fire (Shin). Readers see this as a pattern of balance in the world. In the primary lessons: In school: peer mediators help pupils settle playground arguments. In news and law: someone mediates between two countries or in a family dispute. In church: Christians believe Jesus mediates between God and people.

### examples

- To intervene in any thing, to mediate the peace, accomodate a quarrel. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mediate/#x1)
- Water is silent, Fire is sibilant, and Air derived fron the Spirit is as the tongue of a balance standing between these contraries which are in equilibrium, reconciling and mediating between them. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mediate/#x2)
- Water is silent, Fire is sibilant, and Air derived from the Spirit is as the tongue of a balance standing between these contraries which are in equilibrium, reconciling and mediating between them. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mediate/#x3)
- A teacher mediated between the two friends after their fight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mediate/#x4)
- Our school trains pupils to mediate playground quarrels. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mediate/#x5)
- Another country offered to mediate in the dispute. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mediate/#x6)
- The coach mediated between the angry players. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mediate/#x7)
- A good mediator listens to both sides. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mediate/#x8)
- Christians believe Jesus mediates between God and humans. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mediate/#x9)

### note

Noun: mediation; person: mediator. Mediating is not deciding who wins (that is judging); it is helping both sides agree. Do not confuse with «meditate» (to think quietly).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «mediate» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mediate/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.