וַיָּבוֹא֮ הָמָן֒ וַיֹּ֤אמֶר לוֹ֙ הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ מַה־לַעֲשׂ֕וֹת בָּאִ֕ישׁ אֲשֶׁ֥ר הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ חָפֵ֣ץ בִּיקָר֑וֹ וַיֹּ֤אמֶר הָמָן֙ בְּלִבּ֔וֹ לְמִ֞י יַחְפֹּ֥ץ הַמֶּ֛לֶךְ לַעֲשׂ֥וֹת יְקָ֖ר יוֹתֵ֥ר מִמֶּֽנִּי׃
Setelah Haman masuk, raja bertanya kepadanya: “Apakah yang harus dilakukan kepada orang yang raja berkenan menghormatinya?” Kata Haman dalam hatinya: “Kepada siapa lagi raja berkenan memberi penghormatan lebih daripada kepadaku?”
Pele Yoetz
All of those benefits are trivial compared to the good for the soul, which is truly a great benefit, without measure. Therefore, let Israel rejoice in its Maker (Psalms 149:2), who chose us out of all the nations, and gave us a Torah of truth, and implanted within us eternal life, and sanctified us with His commandments, and chose us to serve Him and to bless in His name (Deuteronomy 10:8), that through these things, we will merit to live and inherit goodness and blessing for the life of the world to come, which is a great good, so much so that it was said: "A single hour of tranquility in the world to come is preferable to all of life in this world" (Pirkei Avot 4:17). And this is what one should think when one labors for the sake of reward. But when one reaches the level of being like slaves who serve the master not for the sake of reward (see Pirkei Avot 1:3), then one should rejoice more and more at the privilege of being a slave to a Sovereign lofty and exalted, majestic and awesome, whose grandeur is beyond understanding, and who selected us out of all of the nations and out of all of the heavenly hosts, who desires us and who loves us. And God wanted to credit Israel, therefore He proliferated Torah and commandments for them, and He is eager in His love, despite our being mortals like vain vapors (Psalms 144:4). This is a great and peerless good, to those who contemplate the grandeur of the Creator and contrast it with the lowliness of man. And through this, one will recognize and know, that it is a great benefit that He chose us and drew us to His service, so that they said in truth: "A single hour of Torah [sic] and good deeds in this world is preferable to all of the world to come" (Pirkei Avot 4:17). And one should consider what has been honor and greatness (Esther 6:3) for the lowliest of people?—That the king was eager for his honor (Esther 6:6-11), and chose him to stand before him and to serve him, even though he is flesh and blood, a fetid droplet, just like him—how much more so the degree of separation of the Omnipresent above us, up to a place that the power of our minds cannot divine, so great is the good that our Creator, our Deviser, our Maker, has granted us.