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Musar su Isaia 64:3

וּמֵעוֹלָ֥ם לֹא־שָׁמְע֖וּ לֹ֣א הֶאֱזִ֑ינוּ עַ֣יִן לֹֽא־רָאָ֗תָה אֱלֹהִים֙ זוּלָ֣תְךָ֔ יַעֲשֶׂ֖ה לִמְחַכֵּה־לֽוֹ׃

E da chi dei vecchi non hanno sentito né percepito dall'orecchio, né l'occhio ha visto un Dio accanto a Te, che lavora per lui che lo aspetta.

Orchot Tzadikim

Even though generosity is a good quality, a person should be careful not to be a spendthrift in order to attain the desires of his heart, in all manner of food and drink or to give of his wealth to harlots, or to have expensive garments made, or to scatter his money in all sorts of schemes that do not lead to reverence of Heaven. A man who is generous should not scatter his funds for nothing or pursue desires which can only bring him all sorts of evil. But he should be very careful to be liberal with the deserving poor, to dress them, to feed them with the best, as it is written, "All the fat is the Lord's" (Lev. 3:16). His reward shall be that which is good and treasured, which "Neither hath the eye seen, save God, who worketh for him that waiteth for Him" (Is. 64:3).
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Kav HaYashar

Rabbi Yochanan said in the name of Rav: When the Holy One Blessed is He exits those worlds that He desires and enters Gan Eden together with the righteous, He pauses to see whether He hears the sound of Torah study. For it was taught: That sound is more pleasing to Him than all the songs and praises that are recited by the ministering angels On High, as it is written, “I descended into the Nut Garden to see, etc.” (Shir HaShirim 6:11). What is meant by “to see”? To observe those engaged in study. Rabbi Yitzchak asked, “Is Gan Eden then called the ‘Nut Garden’?” Rabbi Yochanan replied, “Yes, certainly Gan Eden is called the ‘Nut Garden.’ Just as a nut is sealed up from every side and is surrounded by many shells, so is Eden sealed up on every side and surrounded by numerous defenses so that it cannot be seen by any angel, saraf .. Chashmal and beheld by the prophets. Thus it is written, “No eye has seen it except for You, O God” (Yeshayahu 64:3). Rabbi Shimon ben Yochai said: One time I was standing before Rabbi Beroka and he said to me, “So shall I merit the level of the Nut Garden together with the pious of Israel.” But I did not understand what he meant until I heard from Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai that the Holy One Blessed is He refers to Gan Eden as the Nut Garden. Just as a nut is surrounded by many shells while the fruit is situated in the middle, so too Gan Eden — the garden is on the outside while Eden is on the inside.
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Orchot Tzadikim

Therefore, you must set your heart and all your mind on the Torah at all times. For in the Torah a man learns wisdom, proper conduct, humility, modesty, and all good deeds, and Heaven will provide him his necessities. And the Torah guards him and uplifts him and exalts him, as the Sages taught : Rabbi Meir said, "Everyone who occupies himself with the Torah for its own sake merits many things ; and not only this, but he is worthy of all the world. He is called friend, beloved … and it raises him and exalts him over all created things" (Aboth 6:1). And lo the fruit of the reward for this devotion to Torah is in this world, and in the world to come the reward is such that no eye has seen it but the eye of God (see Is. 64:3), and there is nothing greater than that reward in the world to come. They said in the Midrash (Ruth Rabbah 1:1 letter 2) : Rabbi asked Rabbi Bezalel, "What is the meaning of what is written in Hosea 2:1, 'For their mother had played the harlot' "? And he said to him, "When do the words of the Torah become like harlots? When those who study them shame them by their conduct. How would that be? A wise man sits and learns 'you shall not incline or wrest judgment' (Deut. 16:19), but he does in fact wrest judgment. He studies, 'You shall not be prejudiced in favor of the mighty,' but he does respect the presence of a wealthy or powerful person in court. 'You shall not take a bribe,' and he does take a bribe!"
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Shenei Luchot HaBerit

Abraham did not offer wine, though Adam had his wine sieved by the angels while he was still in גן עדן, is that the Talmud describes that heavenly wine as something no one on earth has ever seen the like of, something משומר בענביו, "preserved within its grapes," i.e. it exists as yet only in the potential. (Berachot 34).
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