Musar para sa Mga Awit 145:15

Behold that God tests the righteous to know if they are fit to be leaders, according to their leadership over animals, to what extent they delve into their needs and know how to provide for their betterment. Once King David, peace be upon him, distinguished between the specific requirements of all the types of sheep, each one according to its strength - and organized that the young sheet graze first while there is still soft grass, and the adult ones graze afterward since they have the ability to also eat the harder [grass] - the Holy One, blessed be He, found him fit to be the shepherd and leader of the people as well. And likewise, Moshe, our teacher: As he followed the kid in order to determine what the reason was for its running away. And after he determined that it was tired and thirsty, he had mercy upon it and placed it upon his shoulders. This revealed that he understood and examined the needs of every creature; so the Holy One, blessed be He, found him fit to be the shepherd of the Jewish people. But why did He test them specifically in their relationship to animals? Because from that, the trait of kindness and mercy that they were graced with was revealed. And is it not written concerning the Holy One, blessed be He (Psalms 145), "and His mercy is upon all of His creations," to include all of the creatures? (See Bava Metzia 85 with the story about Rabbi with the calf and with the young weasels.) And it is also written (Psalms 145), "The eyes of all hope towards You, and You give them their food in its time," as He concerns Himself for each one individually, according to its needs and time. Hence, only a person who goes in the ways of God and also has mercy upon all of the creatures and knows to distinguish and delve into the ways of each of them can stand this test and be fit for the task of being a shepherd and leader.

The camp of Ephrayim, which faces West, the direction of our prayers, the direction of the שכינה, the Holy of Holies, is the region behind which the angel רפאל is positioned We find an allusion to this in Moses' prayer for Miriam, 12,13, "א-ל נא, רפא נא לה" Prayer corresponds to the letter ו in the Ineffable Name of G–d, because the conditions for successful prayer are 3, i.e. in reality 6. 1) Prayer is called עין ולב, eye and heart. It is called "eye," because Psalms 145,15, says: "all eyes are on You." It is called "heart," since the Torah in Deut 11,13, requires us to serve the Lord "with all your hearts." This demand may appear as a contradiction in terms.