הָרָשׁוּת מְקַבֶּרֶת אֶת בְּעָלֶיהָ, הָרַבָּנוּת מְקַבֶּרֶת אֶת בְּעָלֶיהָ

ביטוי (אנגלית)

Authority buries its owners, Rabbinic rule buries its owners

הגדרה (אנגלית)

The power is a sin to harm its owners. The conduct and control of man over others is a sin to harm himself (authority and lordship mean lordship, power or authority).

("The end of the wicked is a storm, and the wickedness buryeth the righteous in its midst; naked is gathered to it, and naked shall it depart from it, and woe unto her that she goeth not out as she cometh" - Yoma Po A.B., and also: "Another thing: And I hate the rabbinate - except that the rabbinate buryeth her husbands, and the dust of a hard kingdom" - Small Tracts of the Tract of the Fathers of Rabbi Nathan It is written in chapter 22, and it says: "And he hated the rabbinate - he kept away from the practice of the law on the tsibbur, for the rabbinate buries the righteous in its groves" - R. Obadiah of Bartenura, the Fathers of the Achaemenids, and it says: "That which is of this taste they fled from the rabbinate... on the strength of the distance that they saw the newborn that they saw to keep away from the rabbinate that buries the righteous in its groves" - Agnon/ City and Its Fullness, 654, and so on: "And our late rabbis said: Such is the way of the Torah, and woe to that rabbinate that buries its followers" - H. Hazaz/ Dorot Harashonim, 25)