דְּיוֹ בְּקַו חָרוּבִים מֵעֶרֶב שַׁבָּת לְעֶרֶב שַׁבָּת

ביטוי (אנגלית)

Enough on a line of carobs from Sabbath eve to Sabbath eve

הגדרה (אנגלית)

A figurative expression by allusion: he has enough food at a small measure from time to time. He is satisfied with very little.

(“Every day a heavenly voice goes forth and says: ‘The whole world is sustained for the sake of My son Ḥanina, and Ḥanina My son—sufficient for him is a measure of carobs from one Sabbath eve to the next.’” — Ta’anit 24b; and likewise: “For these writers who strive on your behalf are covered seven together under a single cloak from great poverty, and they do not even have a measure of carobs from one Sabbath to the next.” — Berdyczewski, Writings, II, p. 141; and likewise: “The whole world was created only for the sake of My son Ḥanina… the whole world is sustained for his sake, and Ḥanina—not even a fig, not even a pomegranate, not even a single love—as if indeed a measure of carobs from Sabbath to Sabbath is enough for him.” — Natan Yonatan, Ḥanina My Son)