הוֹשִׁיט לוֹ בְּקָנֶה

ביטוי (אנגלית)

To extend help generously/to serve on a silver platter

הגדרה (אנגלית)

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)