Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Musar for Pesachim 225:3

א"ל רב לרב כהנא הפוך בנבילתא ולא תיפוך במילי פשוט נבילתא בשוקא ושקיל אגרא ולא תימא כהנא אנא וגברא רבא אנא וסניא בי מלתא סלקת לאיגרא שירותך בהדך מאה קרי במתא בזוזא תותי כנפיך ניהוו

flay carcases in the market place and earn wages and do not say, 'I am a priest and a great man and it is beneath my dignity.'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The greatest man is not degraded by honest work.');"><sup>6</sup></span> [Even] if you [merely] ascend the roof, [take] victuals with you.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Do not undertake the least journey without provisions.');"><sup>7</sup></span> [Even] if a hundred pumpkins cost but a zuz in town, let them, be under your skirts.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Keep them in stock and do not wait to buy until you actually need them.');"><sup>8</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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