Pemikiran Yahudi Amsal 22:7: Duties

(2) The second category - submission towards other human beings. If because they rule over him, such as a prisoner in the hands of his enemy, or a slave in the hands of his master; or because he lacks what they have and greatly needs what they possess such as a tenant to his landlord or a poor man who looks to the generosity of the wealthy man, or a student to his teacher, or a substantial loan that one is unable to repay and he must be submissive and lower himself before his lender, as written "A rich man will rule over the poor, and a borrower is a slave to a lender" (Mishlei 22:7).

To this category belongs the submission of one who knows about himself that he is falling short regarding the bounds (the torah set -PL) in matters of this world and the next, and is ignorant of the proper path. When he finds the prophet of his generation or righteous teacher or anyone else who preaches the proper path, he will submit to him and lower himself before him, as our teachers said: "serving (a wise man) is greater than learning by him" (Berachos 7b), as written: "Elisha ben Shafat who poured water for Eliyahu" (Melachim II 3:11), it does not say: "who studied by Eliyahu" but rather: 'who poured water', this teaches that serving a Sage is greater than studying by him (one grows more from this); and also: "his (Moshe's) attendant, Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, would not depart from the tent" (Shmos 33:11). Likewise the wise man said regarding the general masses: "A rich man will rule over the poor, and a borrower is a slave to a lender" (Mishlei 22:7).