קבלה על אבות 5:9

It was taught: Rabbi Simeon said to the colleagues: “How long will we sit in a place of one pillar? As it is written: It is time to act for the Lord (Ps. 119:126). ‘The days are short and the lender presses’ (Avot 5:9). All day the [divine] decree cries out, and they that harvest the field are few. They are the ‘ripe’ [grapes] of the vineyard, and they do not look and do not know properly where they are going. Enter, O colleagues, into the threshing floor (‘idra), dressed in armor and [bearing] spears. Hurry your preparations in counsel, in wisdom, in understanding, and in knowledge, with sight, with [strength] of hands and feet. Make king over you He who has life and death in His power. [That He may] decree words of truth, words which the higher holy ones hear and are glad to hear and know.”