Pensée juive sur Les Psaumes 119:60

Let him imagine to himself after he recognized its worth, that if it had been unknown to him, and afterwards he met a certain man who bestowed it to him, would his efforts and abilities to pay him back be enough to convey his gratitude and praise? All the more so, for the Creator who rouses him to it and helps him to understand it and to fulfill it. The least debt of gratitude that we are obligated for it is to run to cling to His torah, and that we hasten to accept the obligation of His commands and His prohibitions, as written "I made haste, and delayed not, to observe Your commandments" (Tehilim 119:60), and "How I love Your Torah" (Tehilim 119:97), and "How sweet are Your words to my palate" (Tehilim 119:103).

And this is the highest level in the knowledge of G-d, because one who truly knows Him will cling to His service and to fear of Him, according to the knowledge in his heart and mind, and he will fulfill the duties of the heart and limbs without effort and without hassle, but rather with desire and craving, and zeal, as David said: "I made haste, and delayed not, to observe Your commandments" (Tehilim 119:60), and on this the wise man said: "Happy is the man that finds wisdom, and the man that gets understanding" (Mishlei 3:13), and "Happy are they that keep justice, that do righteousness at all times" (Tehilim 106:3).

And he who wants to obtain the favor of his Creator will enter through the narrow opening through which the pious who bear in this world (in the service of G-d). All of us hope for the good. But only those who hasten towards it will reach it, who run towards it, as our sages said: "Be bold as a leopard, light as an eagle, swift as a deer and mighty as a lion to do the will of your Father in Heaven" (Avos 5:23), and David said: "I hastened and delayed not to keep Your commandments" (Tehilim 119:60).