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# mediate

verb (mediate, mediates, mediated, mediating)

«mediate» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. To mediate is to help two people or groups who disagree to talk and find an agreement, without taking sides. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mediate/#m1)
2. (formal) To be the means by which something passes or happens between two things. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mediate/#m2)

### In the 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

- A teacher mediated between the two friends after their fight. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mediate/#x1)
- Our school trains pupils to mediate playground quarrels. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mediate/#x2)
- Another country offered to mediate in the dispute. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mediate/#x3)
- The coach mediated between the angry players. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mediate/#x4)
- A good mediator listens to both sides. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mediate/#x5)
- Christians believe Jesus mediates between God and humans. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mediate/#x6)

### 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).

## In 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.

### Examples

- To intervene in any thing, to mediate the peace, accomodate a quarrel. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) [tree →](https://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://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mediate/#x3)

### 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).

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «mediate» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mediate/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«mediate» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/mediate.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «mediate» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mediate/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«mediate» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/mediate.html) on Mova free.