Love labour and hate mastery!

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Love labour and hate mastery!

Love labour and hate mastery!

One should love work and labor, and prefer them over a position of authority over the public (here, “rabbanut” implies authority or dominion in this context).

("Shmaya and Avtalyon received from them. Shmaya says: Love labor, and hate mastery, and do not seek authority." – Pirkei Avot 1:1; also: "The rabbi began to interpret and go, Love labor, even if he has a way to earn a living, he must engage in labor, and hate mastery, and do not say, ‘I am a great man, it is beneath me to engage in labor.’" – Agnon / Ir uMeloa, 394; also: "Truly, he hated mastery, and even anything with the dust of authority was detestable to him." – Agnon / Temol Shilshom, 133; also: "From Sunday to Friday at noon / Rabbi Shalom Shabazi sat in the shop / weaving and sewing, cutting with scissors. / Loved labor and hated mastery / Between evenings on the Temple Mount / he came to pray in Jerusalem." – Uri Berzili / Rabbi Shalom Shabazi)

Translation

Expression (Hebrew)

אֱהַב אֶת הַמְּלָאכָה וּשְׂנָא אֶת הָרַבָּנוּת

Definition (Hebrew)

יֵשׁ לֶאֱהֹב אֶת הָעֲבוֹדָה וְעָמָל וּלְהַעֲדִיף אוֹתָם עַל פְּנֵי תַּפְקִיד שֶׁל שְׂרָרָה עַל הַצִּבּוּר (רַבָּנוּת מַשְׁמָע שְׂרָרָה אוֹ רִבּוֹנוּת בְּהֶקְשֵׁר זֶה).

("שְׁמַעְיָה וְאַבְטַלְיוֹן קַבְּלוּ מֵהֶם. שְׁמַעְיָה אוֹמֵר: אָהוּב אֶת הַמְּלָאכָה, וּשְׂנָא אֶת הָרַבָּנוּת וְאַל תִּתְוַדַּע לָרָשׁוּת" - אָבוֹת א א; וְכֵן: "הִתְחִיל הָרַב מִפְרָשׂ וְהוֹלֵךְ, אָהוּב אֶת הַמְּלָאכָה, אֲפִלּוּ יֵשׁ לוֹ בָּמָה לְהִתְפַּרְנֵס חַיָּב לְהִתְעַסֵּק בַּמְּלָאכָה, וּשְׂנָא אֶת הָרַבָּנוּת וְלֹא תֹּאמַר אָדָם גָּדוֹל אֲנִי וּגְנַאי לִי לַעֲסֹק בַּמְּלָאכָה" - עַגְנוֹן/עִיר וּמְלוֹאָהּ, 394; וְכֵן: "בֶּאֱמֶת הָיָה שׂוֹנֵא אֶת הָרַבָּנוּת, וַאֲפִלּוּ דָּבָר שֶׁיֵּשׁ בּוֹ אֲבַק רַבָּנוּת שְׂנוּאֵי הָיָה עָלָיו" - עַגְנוֹן/תְּמוֹל שִׁלְשׁוֹם, 133; וְכֵן: "מִיּוֹם רִאשׁוֹן עַד יוֹם שִׁשִּׁי בַּצָּהֳרַיִם / יוֹשֵׁב רַבִּי שָׁלוֹם שַׁבָּזִי בַּחֲנוּת / אוֹרֵג הוּא וְתוֹפֵר, גּוֹזֵר בְּמִסְפָּרַיִם. / אוֹהֵב אֶת הַמְּלָאכָה וְשׂוֹנֵא רַבָּנוּת / בֵּין הָעַרְבִיִּים עַל הַר הַבַּיִת / בָּא לַתְּפִלָּה בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם" - אוּרִי בַּרְזִלַּי/רַבִּי שָׁלוֹם שַׁבָּזִי)

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