Cytowanie Komentarza do Przysłów 23:26

King Solomon, of blessed memory, said: “give your mind to me, my son; let your eyes watch my ways” [Proverbs, 23:26]. This means, give your heart to me and your eyes should watch my ways. The verse teaches us that the person should serve the Holy One with all of his limbs. It is known that the eyes and the heart bring the person to commit all sins and lusts, since the eyes and the heart desire. When the heart and the eyes are whole with the Holy One, the person is pious in the service of God. Therefore, we say every day, “so that you do not follow your heart and eyes in lustful urge” [Numbers, 15:39]. This means, you should not follow your hearts and eyes who make you inconstant, like a whore who misleads people. Therefore, it says, “follow lustful urges” [Numbers, 15:39]. Since the one who goes after his eyes and heart, is like somebody who goes after a whore. Therefore, King Solomon, of blessed memory, also said about this verse, “a harlot is a deep pit; a forbidden woman is a narrow well” [Proverbs, 23:27]. The one who goes to the house of the harlot is like one who goes near a large, deep pit and falls into it. He certainly has wounds and other harm. So too, the one who goes to the house of the harlot. He does not come out without harm and sins. He is like a fountain that gushes. The more water one takes out of it, the more water the fountain has. So too, the one who goes after harlotry. All day he thinks of nothing but that he wants to quiet his evil inclination, and the evil inclination incites him even more. From speaking with an unrelated woman, he comes to looking at her. When he looks at her, he has thoughts, and from these thoughts comes that he touches her hand.¹Bahya, Ki Teizei, Introduction.

תנה בני לבך לי ועיניך דרכי תצורנה, “Give your heart to me my son, and let your eyes observe my ways.” (Proverbs 23,26)