Pour Water on His Hands/ to sit at the feet of/ to be a disciple/ "to pour water upon the hands of"/ to study under someone

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Pour Water on His Hands/ to sit at the feet of/ to be a disciple/ "to pour water upon the hands of"/ to study under someone

He was a disciple of …, a singer of …

('And Jehoshaphat said, "Is there not here a prophet of the Lord, that we may inquire of the Lord through him?" And one of the servants of the king of Israel answered and said, "There is here Elisha son of Shaphat, who poured water on Elijah's hands"' - II Kings 3:11 (about the prophet Elisha, Elijah's disciple), and also: 'Indeed, how good and how pleasant it is that I once poured water on the hands of professors, the great men of our time' - Saul Tchernichovsky, 'A Chapter in Anatomy,' and also: 'He brushes the benches of the beit midrash for the rabbis and pours water on the hands of Rabbi Tzvi Peretz Chayut' - H. Be'er, Notsot, 41)

Translation

Expression (Hebrew)

יָצַק מַיִם עַל יָדָיו

Definition (Hebrew)

הָיָה תַּלְמִידוֹ שֶׁל …, שֵׁירֵת אֶת …

("וַיֹּאמֶר יְהוֹשָׁפָט, הַאֵין פֹּה נָבִיא לַ ה' וְנִדְרְשָׁה אֶת ה' מֵאוֹתוֹ ? וַיַּעַן אֶחָד מֵעַבְדֵי מֶלֶךְ יִשְׂרָאֵל וַיֹּאמֶר, פֹּה אֱלִישָׁע בֶּן שָׁפָט אֲשֶׁר יָצַק מַיִם עַל יְדֵי אֵלִיָּהוּ"- מְלָכִים ב ג יָא (עַל הַנָּבִיא אֱלִישָׁע תַּלְמִיד אֵלִיָּהוּ), וְכֵן:"אָכֵן, מַה טּוֹב וּמַה נָּעִים, אֲשֶׁר יָצַקְתִּי לְפָנִים/ מַיִם עַל יַד פְּרוֹפֵסוֹרִים, מִגְּדוֹלֵי הַדּוֹר בְּיָמֵינוּ" - שָׁאוּל טְשֶׁרְנִיחוֹבְסְקִי/ פֶּרֶק בְּאָנָטוֹמְיָה, וְכֵן:"חוֹבֵשׁ אֶת סַפְסְלֵי בֵּית הַמִּדְרָשׁ לְרַבָּנִים וְיוֹצֵק מַיִם עַל יָדָיו שֶׁל הָרַב צְבִי פֶּרֶץ חַיּוּת"- ח.בְּאֵר, נוֹצוֹת, 41)

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