Midrash su Ecclesiaste 5:10
בִּרְבוֹת֙ הַטּוֹבָ֔ה רַבּ֖וּ אוֹכְלֶ֑יהָ וּמַה־כִּשְׁרוֹן֙ לִבְעָלֶ֔יהָ כִּ֖י אִם־ראית [רְא֥וּת] עֵינָֽיו׃
Quando i beni aumentano, aumentano quelli che li mangiano; e quale vantaggio c'è per il suo proprietario, salvandone l'osservazione con i suoi occhi?
Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer
A man has three friends || in his lifetime, and they are: his sons and his household, his money, and his good deeds. At the hour of a man's departure from the world he gathers his sons and his household, and he says to them: I beg of you to come and save me from the judgment of this evil death. They answer him, saying to him: Hast thou not heard that there is no one who can prevail over the day of death? and is it not written thus, "None of them can by any means redeem his brother" (Ps. 49:7)? "For the redemption of their soul is costly" (Ps. 49:8). And he has his money fetched, and says to it: I beseech thee, save me from the judgment of this evil death. It answers him, saying: Hast thou not heard, "Riches profit not in the day of wrath" (Prov. 11:4)? He (then) has his good deeds fetched, and he says to them: I beseech you, come and deliver me from the judgment of this evil death. And they answer him and say to him: Before thou goest, verily, we will go in advance of thee, as it is said, "And charity delivereth from death" (ibid.). Does then charity deliver from death? (This refers) to an evil death only. Another Scripture says, "And thy righteousness shall go before thee, the glory of the Lord shall be thy rearward" (Isa. 58:8).
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Sifrei Devarim
And where is it seen that one blessing was given to Israel, which encompasses all blessing? In (Koheleth 5:10) "The lover of silver will not be sated with silver, and he who loves (it) in profusion will have no produce," and (Ibid. 8) "the profit of the earth (i.e., the field) is over all. The king is subservient to the field." A king who rules over treasures of silver and gold is subservient to the produce of the field — whence we see that the blessing given to Israel encompasses all others.
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