Musar untuk Ulangan 15:14

In light of these things, let everyone who fears God and trembles before Him take to heart the sublimity and glory of prayer and the importance of praying with concentration. Fortunate is he who honors his Creator with his voice, with love and with concentration of the heart, and who ascribes to the Holy One Blessed is He — unity, sanctity and blessing. Concerning this was it written, “You shall surely give to him from your flock, from your threshing floor and from your winepress” (Devarim 15:14). The phrase, “from your flock,” alludes to the reciting the passages of the sacrifices before the morning service. One should have mind the verse, “And let us pay for [the offerings of] bullocks with [the prayers of] our lips” (Hoshea 14:3), as one recites them. The next phrase, “from your threshing floor (garnecha),” alludes to the prayers, praises and songs that one offers up with one’s throat (garon). Finally, in the phrase, “from your winepress (miyikvecha),” the middle letters form an acronym for the words: “unification” (yichud), “blessing” (berachah) and “holiness” (kedushah), as is mentioned in Tikkunei Zohart (Zohar Chadash 130a).

I found in the name of the author of the [Sefer] HaYereim, may his memory be blessed: We learn from here that a person is obligated on the holiday to engage in any proper enjoyment and any joyful thing which makes him rejoice; with anything from which his heart derives joy and bliss, like eating, drinking and strolling. So a person is obligated to do everything that makes him rejoice. And just like he is obligated to make himself rejoice; so too is he obligated to make his sons, his daughters and his household rejoice, as it is stated (Deuteronomy 16:14), "You are to rejoice during your festival - you, your son and your daughter." And just like he is obligated to make his sons, his daughters and his household rejoice; so too is he obligated to make others rejoice with him, as it is stated (Deuteronomy 16:11), "and the Levite who is in your city, the stranger, the orphan and the widow who are among you." The Holy One, blessed be He, said, "You have four [types of] residents - your son, your daughter, your slave and your maidservant. If you make mine rejoice, I will make yours rejoice." And likewise Ezra says (Nehemiah 8:10), "Go, eat choice foods and drink sweet drinks and send portions to whoever has nothing prepared for himself." To here are his [words].