זוּ תּוֹרָה וְזוּ שָׂכְרָה?! ( זֶה...וְזֶה שָׂכְרוּ?!)

ביטוי (אנגלית)

Are this the wages of observing the Law/Is this the reward for preserving the Torah?

הגדרה (אנגלית)

Is this the reward of someone who learns Torah?!, in the question: Is it seen that a person who has done a good deed will suffer or be punished?!

("Seeing that his flesh was weighed in a rod, he said to him: Lord of the world, this is the Torah and this is its reward? He said to him: Be silent, so it has risen in thought before me" - Menahot 29b, and so: "This city! There is no one who sees and no one who understands and no one who takes to heart... This is a treasury and this is its reward!... For thirty-three years it has been languishing before the tabernacle..." - Shalom Aleichem/ The Lord, a good day is better than mourning, 18:48, and so on: "And all the rest of them from the food that was offered to them, names upon names...This is the Torah and this is its reward, you know" - H. Hazaz/ Dorot Harashonim, 48)