The Scholar and the Layman should be Friends

A pearl in the mouths of the rabbis of Yavneh:

I am a man and my friend is a man.

I work in the city and he works in the field.

I get up early in the morning to do my work and he gets up early in the morning to do his work.

He doesn't try to bite my style and I don't try to bite his style.

You might think that I do much and he does little, but we have a principle: some do much and some do little, as long as each directs his heart to Heaven.

(Brachot 17a)