Tafsiran yang Mengutip untuk Amsal 15:14

And the second principle, it is the love of the glorious Name, as it is stated, 'And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.' This means to say, 'Hear, O Israel,' in that first statement that you heard at Sinai, as the Blessed Name said, 'Who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage,' it includes sublime knowledge. And after the Lord, blessed be He, greatly favored you and bestowed upon you many benefits, that you should love Him, for it is natural for a person to love that which is good for him. And since He performed for you three kinds of goodness in the Exodus from Egypt: the first is the physical goodness in bringing you out from slavery to freedom, the second is the spiritual goodness by connecting you to His love and guidance and giving you the Torah and commandments, and the third is the great wealth and possessions that He bestowed upon you from Egypt. Therefore, the love should be with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might, for the heart corresponds to bodily freedom, and the soul corresponds to the divine perfection you have acquired, and the might corresponds to the wealth and possessions He has bequeathed to you. It is also possible to interpret this in the sense that it is incumbent upon you to obligate yourself with this supreme love because of the three aspects mentioned in that statement: the first being in His saying, 'I am the Lord your God, who brought you out,' and this concludes according to His excellence, alluding to His name, and because of His conduct, alluding to 'your God.' And because of His goodness, mentioned in His saying, 'Who brought you out.' This indicates that it is fitting for you to love Him. For love, as mentioned by Maimonides in the Book of Traits, Chapter Three, consists of three types: love of the good, which is according to reason; love of pleasure, which is according to the senses and desires; and love of utility, which is according to wealth. Therefore, it is necessary to say that in all these three aspects of imagination, love for Him, blessed be He, is fitting. This is what is meant by 'with all your heart,' which is the intellectual part, as it says, 'A discerning heart seeks knowledge' (Proverbs 15:14). And 'with all your soul,' which is the soul that desires pleasure, as it says, 'His soul desires food' (Job 33:20). And 'with all your might,' which is the aspect in which you seek and pursue wealth, for all these goods, whether spiritual or physical, in a person and externally, are fitting to be dedicated to the love of the Creator, blessed be He. Through this, all kinds of perfections and deficiencies are included, for in saying 'with all your heart,' as I have explained, the true beliefs and opinions, the study of Torah, and constant prayer are included. And 'with all your soul' includes refraining from sins, fulfilling practical commandments, fasting, and the like. And 'with all your might' includes charity and lending to the poor, refraining from theft, robbery, and deception, and all other commandments dependent on wealth. Did the Sages not interpret in Berakhot, Chapter "Ha-Roeh" (page 61), and in many other places, 'And with all your soul, even if He takes your soul'? They meant by this that even though many evils and troubles befall a person, one should uphold the judgment and believe in the love of the Almighty and love Him, and not think in one's heart that there are two beginnings in accordance with the interchange of different types of things that are influenced from above. But rather, one should cleave to his God and not fear His love, as we have seen with Rabbi Akiva in the case of the iron combs that scraped his flesh, yet Rabbi Akiva's taste and fragrance were not diminished. Therefore, it is said, 'Fortunate are you, Rabbi Akiva, that your soul departed while you were reciting the Shema.' This is to indicate that the sufferings did not separate his attachment to Him, blessed be He. This is the second principle, the love of the Almighty, included in that first statement. And it has already been mentioned in the commandment to love the Almighty, as He commanded, 'And you shall serve the Lord your God,' for the service to Him, blessed be He, is from the love of Him