גְּדוֹלָה מְלָאכָה שֶׁמְּכַבֶּדֶת אֶת בְּעָלֶיהָ

ביטוי (אנגלית)

Great is the labour that warms (honours) the workman

הגדרה (אנגלית)

The value of every craft and every type of work is great, and they contain honor for the one who engages in them and earns a livelihood through them.

(Rabbi Yehuda, carrying a clay jar on his shoulder (as he went to the study house), said: 'Great is the labour that honours its master.' Rabbi Shimon, carrying a basket of nuts on his shoulder, said the same: 'Great is the labour that honours its master' - Nedarim 49b. Likewise: 'When you enter a dining house, no one frowns because you are a painter, for here the work honours its master' - Agnon, 'Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow,' p.303.)