אֵין לוֹ אֶלָּא...

ביטוי (אנגלית)

He has nothing but, he has only...; there is only...for him

הגדרה (אנגלית)

All he has is only..., he has no other option except...

("A barrel of honey cracked, and he poured his wine and saved the honey into it—he has nothing but his payment. And if he said, 'I will save yours, and you will give me the value of mine,' he is liable"—Bava Kama 10:4. Also: "A Torah scroll that is not corrected for missing or extra letters—it can be fixed and corrected... but if he made a mistake... it is invalid, and there is no remedy except to remove the entire page in which he erred"—Maimonides, Book of Love, Laws of Tefillin, Mezuzah, and Torah Scroll, Chapter 8, 3, 228. Also: "A city like this has no remedy except fire! Thus said my sister-in-law Bracha and poured out all her wrath and bitterness about the city of London in one breath, and immediately she felt relief"—Sholem Aleichem, London Has No Remedy but Fire, 211. Also: "In the Land of Israel, the eyes see and rejoice, and the heart sees and weeps. Outside the Land, all that a man's eyes see is nothing but a single vision, meaning he has nothing but what his eyes see before him"—Y. Burla, Longings, 93. Also: "The doctor told him, 'You have no remedy except that we amputate your leg, for otherwise the poison will spread through the whole body'"—Agnon, Only Yesterday, 55)