Tafsiran yang Mengutip untuk Amsal 16:26

This is unlike the love of Torah, as a complete love can be experienced in any place or time, as [expressed by] wisdom’s statement communicated by Solomon through Divine inspiration, “I love them who love me, and those who seek me earnestly shall find Me.”¹⁰Prov. 8:17. Two things are guaranteed, that she [the Torah] loves us [Israel], and that [the Torah] is readily accessible. It states in Tractate Sanhedrin 91,¹¹It is actually 99b. See Part 2, chapter 6 for an additional understanding of this talmudic statement. “‘When the soul toils, the soul then toils for him,’¹²Prov. 16:26. he toils in one place and then the Torah toils for him in another.” The Torah assists [by both helping him] to understand it and by sweetening his heart so that he is drawn unto her with a complete love that is spiritual [in nature and] most powerful. In conclusion, in these times the love of Torah is more precious before God than the love of God, for [only] the love of Torah can be achieved in a most complete manner.

“Give rest to the weary…”³⁶Isa. 28:12. (“Rest” does not mean the mere absence of toil, but rather that one should [sit and] labor in the study of Torah, and then the Torah will work for him [so that he can] understand and gain its insights. As it states in Tractate Sanhedrin 99b [pertaining to the verse], “When the soul toils, the soul then toils for him”:³⁷Prov. 16:26. “He toils in one place, while the Torah toils for him in another.”³⁸By toiling in the study of Torah, he is assured of remembering and understanding it well. Tractate Eruvin 21b,³⁹Actually, 21b and 22a. states, “Pertaining to the verse, ‘“[… his locks are wavy], and black as a raven”:⁴⁰Song of Songs 5:11. [The words “locks are wavy,” teach that we can pile up mounds of expositions on every stroke of the letters of the alphabet.⁴¹“His locks” (kevutzosav) sounds like “its strokes” (kevetzosav) while the Hebrew for “wavy,” taltalim, is similar to the words for “heaps of heaps,” tillai tallim. “Black as a raven” [teaches us] in whom one finds [accomplished scholarship] ─ in the one who attends the study hall day and night, [and studies the Torah constantly].⁴²The Hebrew for “black,” shehoros, is similar to the word for “morning,” shaharis, while the word for “raven,” orev, is similar to the word for “evening,” arvis.

and my coercion Heb. אכפי, my coercion, like (Prov. 16:26), “his mouth forces (אכף).”