Shmayah y Avtalyon lo recibieron de ellos. [Shmayah y Avtalyon eran conversos justos, de los descendientes de Sancheriv. Escuché decir que debido a que Avtalyon era el beth-din av, lo llamaban por este nombre, que significa "padre de los jóvenes", "talya" en arameo que significa "joven", como en (Meguilá 5b): R. Yochanan dijo: "Cuando era joven (talya)" (Yevamoth 114a): "Que vengan el niño (talya) y la niña (talyata)". Aquí, también, "Avtalyon", el padre de jóvenes huérfanos.] Shmayah dice: Ama el trabajo. [Incluso si uno tiene suficiente para ganarse la vida, debe trabajar, porque "la ociosidad conduce a la lasitud" (Kethuvoth 59b).], Y odia la estación alta. [No digas que soy un hombre de eminencia y el trabajo es degradante para mí, a saber. (Pesachim 113a): Rav le dijo a R. Kahana: "Destroza un cadáver en el mercado y paga (por ello), y no digas: 'Soy un personaje distinguido y está debajo de mí'". Alternativamente: "Y odio la autoridad ". No lo domines sobre la gente, porque "el señorío entierra a sus practicantes"], y no te congratules con las autoridades (rashut) [para asumir la autoridad de ese modo. O: No lo hagas, para que no te aparten de tu fe, como sucedió con Doeg el Edomita. (Las autoridades se llaman "rashut" (literalmente, "permiso"), ya que se les "permite" hacer lo que quieran).]
Mesilat Yesharim
However, our sages of blessed memory, who always instructed us and guided us on the paths of truth said: "love work and hate Rabanut" (Avot 1:10), and further "flay carcasses in the marketplace and earn wages and do not say, 'I am an important man, I am a Kohen, [and it is beneath my dignity]'." (Pesachim 113a), and further "one should always hire himself out to work which is strange to him rather than be dependent [on the help] of others" (Bava Basra 110a).
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HATING RABBANUT: Hating Rabbanut (authority over others) and fleeing from honor: This is an explicit Mishna (Avot 1:10): "love work, hate Rabbanut". They further said: "One whose heart is frivolous in handing down rulings is a fool, wicked and arrogant" (Avot 4:7), and "whoever chases after honor, honor flees from him" (Eruvin 13b), and "'Do not go out quickly to quarrel (Riv)' (Mishlei 25:8) - do not run after rulership, Why not? [the verse continues:] 'for what will you do in the end' (ibid), the next day people will put questions to you, and what will you answer them?" (Pesikta Rabati 22:4);
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And our sages, of blessed memory, said "a sign of arrogance is poverty of Torah" (Sanhedrin 24a). And likewise they said: "a sign of not knowing anything is self-praise" (Zohar Balak 49b); and "one coin in a pitcher cries out 'rattle, rattle'" (Bava Metzia 85b); and "the barren trees were asked: 'why are your voices heard?' they replied: 'would that it were that our voices will be heard and we will be remembered'" (Bereishis Raba 16:3).
