On my faith!
In the recommendation: I swear by the sacred service of the Temple.
("Simon the righteous said: I have never eaten anything from my days that was unclean outside of a single person. He came to me from the south, beautiful in eyes and good in sight, and his locks were arranged like a garland. I said to him: My son, what did you see that ruined this beautiful hair? He said to me: I was a shepherd for my father in my city, and I went to draw water from the spring and I was able to In my coming, and my enemy was afraid of me and wanted to trouble me from the world, I said to him: Empty! Why are you proud of a world that is not yours, that you will end up being a fool and a fool? The work, that I will shave you for my name! I stood up and kissed his head, I said to him: As your death will increase the number of Nazirites in Israel" - Nazir 4:2, And so: "The work, that to this day I do not know which way to her house and like a hunter comes to her aid" - Y. Burla / Silvers, 52, and so: "I said to him, the work that I run in his shadow even from the end of Jerusalem and to its end" - Agnon / Elo Ve Elo, The Good Years, 379)
Translation
Expression (Hebrew)
הָעֲבוֹדָה!
Definition (Hebrew)
בִּמְלִיצָה: אֲנִי נִשְׁבָּע בַּעֲבוֹדַת הַקֹּדֶשׁ שֶׁל בֵּית הַמִּקְדָּשׁ.
("אָמַר שִׁמְעוֹן הַצַּדִּיק: מִיָּמַי לֹא אָכַלְתִּי אֲשַׁם נָזִיר טָמֵא חוּץ מֵאָדָם אֶחָד, שֶׁבָּא אֵלַי מִן הַדָּרוֹם יְפֵה עֵינַיִם וְטוֹב רֹאִי וּקְוֻצּוֹתָיו סְדוּרוֹת לוֹ תַּלְתַּלִּים, אָמַרְתִּי לוֹ: בְּנִי, מָה רָאִיתָ לְשַׁחֵת שֵׂעָר נָאֶה זֶה? אָמַר לִי: רוֹעֶה הָיִיתִי לְאָבִי בְּעִירִי, וְהָלַכְתִּי לִשְׁאֹב מַיִם מִן הַמַּעְיָן וְנִסְתַּכַּלְתִּי בַּבָּבוּאָה שֶׁלִּי, וּפָחַז יִצְרִי עָלַי וּבִקֵּשׁ לְטָרְדֵנִי מִן הָעוֹלָם, אָמַרְתִּי לוֹ: רֵיקָה! מִפְּנֵי מָה אַתָּה מִתְגָּאֶה בְּעוֹלָם שֶׁאֵינוֹ שֶׁלְּךָ, שֶׁסּוֹפְךָ לִהְיוֹת רִמָּה וְתוֹלֵעָה? הָעֲבוֹדָה, שֶׁאֲגַלְּחֵךְ לִשְׁמֵי'! עָמַדְתִּי וּנְשַׁקְתִּיו עַל רֹאשׁוֹ, אָמַרְתִּי לוֹ: כְּמוֹתְךָ יִרְבּוּ נְזִירִים בְּיִשְׂרָאֵל"- נָזִיר ד ע"ב, וְכֵן:"הָעֲבוֹדָה, שֶׁעַד הַיּוֹם אֵינִי יוֹדֵעַ אֵיזוֹ הַדֶּרֶךְ לְבֵיתָהּ וְכֵיצַד בָּאִים לִמְעוֹנָה"- י.בּוּרְלָא/ כִּסּוּפִים,52, וְכֵן:"אָמַרְתִּי לוֹ, הָעֲבוֹדָה שֶׁאֲנִי רָץ אֶצְלוֹ אֲפִלּוּ מִסּוֹף יְרוּשָׁלַיִם וְעַד סוֹפָהּ"- עַגְנוֹן/ אֵלּוּ וָאֵלּוּ, הַשָּׁנִים הַטּוֹבוֹת, 379)