Kaisipang Hudyo sa Awit ng mga Awit 7:7: Sefer HaIkkarim

This is why Solomon praises this kind of love above all others: “How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!” The meaning is, How superior is the beauty and the pleasure of the love of God to those of any other love, for this love is one of delights—man has wonderful delights in it, and there are as many kinds of delights in it as there are different kinds of understanding. The other kinds of love give a person great pain before he obtains the object of his love. And when he obtains a little thereof, he finds pleasure therein, but the pain increases until he obtains the whole of it, since it is possible of attainment. And when he has obtained the whole of it, his love ceases, and his desire subsides. But the love of God is different. Man rejoices in the little that he obtains, when he considers how great is the worth of the object to be attained. He takes delight in that which he obtains, without any addition of pain because he knows that God can not be attained. Therefore he takes wonderful delight in the little that he attains, and the more he attains, the greater is the love and the delight.

Chapter thirty-six points out that the love of God does not disturb the soul as other loves do, but gives delight only, citing in this connection Canticles 7, 7. It is pointed out that he who serves God from love must examine the act at the time of doing it and choose it in preference to other acts, not minding the inconvenience that may be incurred, for he has no other purpose except to do the will of the beloved. Such was the service of our father Abraham, who was therefore called friend of God.