חוֹטֵב עֵצִים וְשׁוֹאֵב מַיִם

ביטוי (אנגלית)

Hewers of wood and drawers of water

הגדרה (אנגלית)

Question: A nickname for a person who performs hard physical labor. A person whose job requires him to perform hard or menial tasks, such as chopping wood and drawing water from a well.

("You stand here today, all of you...your wives and your strangers who are near your camps, from cutting your wood to drawing your water" - Deuteronomy 29:9 (Moses to the Israelites), and so on: "And there was an old man named Ezra, a hewer of wood and a drawer of water, and in his hand was a bundle of straw and a bundle of hay" - Abraham Mapu/Ayit Tsebua, 61, And so: "Even the water-drawers by the well filled their hearts with the words of the Torah" - Shai Agnon/ Two Disciples of the Wise Men Who Were in Our City, A)