הֱוֵי זָהִיר בְּמִצְוָה קַלָּה כְּבַחֲמוּרָה

ביטוי (אנגלית)

Be heedful of a light precept as of a weighty one !

הגדרה (אנגלית)

A person must be meticulous in observing the light commandments just as he is meticulous in the weighty ones.

("Rabbi Omer says, "What is the right path that a man chooses? All that he does will be praised by the doer and will be praised by him from man, and he will be as brilliant in a light mitzvah as in a heavy one, for no one knows the measure of a drunkard's obedience to a mitzvah" - Avot 2:1, and so: "Truly, he is brilliant in a light mitzvah as in a heavy one, but he has not reached the level of a righteous man" - Y. Burla/ Kisuphim, 52, and so on: "At the hour when he stood up for the night, he said, 'No one says a man's praise to his face, but they say a portion of a man's praise to his face.' Nial, my son, was strong, she was as bright as a horse." - Agnon/ Orech Nata Lalon, 28, and so on: "Let there be in your souls a man from Israel - who from the day he stood up for his knowledge, his parents and his teachers trained him to be careful with the horse. "As a donkey" - H. Baer/ Nowhere Does the Spirit Go, 91)