To extend help generously/to serve on a silver platter

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To extend help generously/to serve on a silver platter

To extend help generously/to serve on a silver platter

By metaphor: He presented to him the matter ready and accessible. He eased his efforts and gave to him without his toil (originally apparently referring to drinking wine through a straw from the jug. The straw was called קָנָה).

("What is the love that the Blessed One, blessed be He, loved the stranger with bread and that he filled it with his heart?!... Rabbi Eliezer rebuked him and said: And how is it easy in your eyes? A thing that an old man (our father Jacob) had said to him: "And they gave me bread to eat and clothing to wear" (in the beginning of strength) and this came and they carried him with a rod" - in the beginning of Rava, and so: "His original power was redeemed "From all evil and he has brought to him all these beauties with a rod" - Bialik/ The Levinsky Manoah, and also: "To this one he pushes with a stick and to this one he brings with a rod, to this one he tortures with a weak tongue and to this one he fulfills the decree seen for him" - H. Hazaz/ Dorot Harashonim, 73)

Translation

Expression (Hebrew)

הוֹשִׁיט לוֹ בְּקָנֶה

Definition (Hebrew)

בְּהַשְׁאָלָה: הִגִּישׁ לוֹ אֶת הַדָּבָר מוּכָן וְנָגִישׁ. הֵקֵל עָלָיו בְּמַאֲמַצָּיו וְנָתַן לוֹ מִבְּלִי שֶׁהוּא יִטְרַח (בַּמָּקוֹר הַכַּוָּנָה כַּנִּרְאֶה לִשְׁתִיַּת יַיִן בְּקַשִּׁית מִתּוֹךְ הַכַּד. הַקַּשִּׁית נִקְרְאָה קָנֶה).

("כָּל חִבָּה שֶׁחִבֵּב הקב"ה אֶת הַגֵּר בְּלֶחֶם וְשֶׁיִּמְלָה בִּלְבַד?!... גָּעַר בּוֹ ר' אֱלִיעֶזֶר וְאָמַר: וְכִי קַלָּה הִיא בְּעֵינֶיךָ? דָּבָר שֶׁנִּתְחַבֵּט עָלָיו אוֹתוֹ זָקֵן (יַעֲקֹב אָבִינוּ) "וְנָתַן לִי לֶחֶם לֶאֱכֹל וּבֶגֶד לִלְבֹּשׁ" (בְּרֵאשִׁית כֹּחַ) וּבָא זֶה וְהוֹשִׁיטוּ לוֹ בְּקָנֶה"- בְּרֵאשִׁית רַבָּה ע, וְכֵן:"כִּשְׁרוֹנוֹ הַמְּקוֹרִי גָּאֲלוּ מִכָּל רַע וְהוֹשִׁיט לוֹ אֶת כָּל הַחֲמוּדוֹת הָאֵלֶּה בְּקָנֶה"-בְּיָאלִיק/ הַמָּנוֹחַ לֵוִינְסְקִי, וְכֵן:"לָזֶה דּוֹחֶה בְּקַשׁ וּלְזֶה מוֹשִׁיט בְּקָנֶה,לָזֶה עוֹנֶה בְּשָׂפָה רָפָה וְלָזֶה מְקַיֵּם פְּסָק הָרָאוּי לוֹ"-ח.הָזָז/ דּוֹרוֹת הָרִאשׁוֹנִים, 73)

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