לְגַשֵּׁר פְּעָרִים
You may be familiar with the Hebrew word for a bridge – גֶּשֶׁר.
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Activating the word as a verb (of the active-intensive פִּעֵלvariety), Modern Hebrew has created a word for the metaphoric concept of bridging or to bridge – לְגַשֵּׁר.
It also means to mediate. For example:
הַמַּאֲמָצִים לְגַשֵּׁר בֵּין שְׁתֵּי הַמְּדִינוֹת הִצְלִיחוּ בְּאֹפֶן חֶלְקִי. The efforts to mediate between the two states succeeded partially. Likewise, to bridge gaps is לְגַשֵּׁר פְּעָרִים
, where פערים is the plural form of the word for gap, פַּעַר
.
Mediation is גִּשּׁוּר.
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