Musar for Bava Batra 219:4
אמר להן כך מקובלני מבית אבי אבא לעולם ישכיר אדם עצמו לע"ז ואל יצטרך לבריות
said unto him:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Micah's priest. ');"><sup>11</sup></span> 'Are you not a descendant of Moses of whom it is written, <i>Draw not nigh hither?</i><span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ex. III, 5. ');"><sup>12</sup></span> Are you not a descendant of Moses of whom it is written, <i>What is</i> this<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [H] ');"><sup>13</sup></span> <i>in thy hand?</i><span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ex. IV, 2. ');"><sup>14</sup></span>
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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