“To acquire mercy and love, the attributes of Hesed, make your first priority to serve God. The best way to “enter into the secret of Loving-kindness [Hesed],” says Cordovero, “is to love God with perfect love so as not to forsake his service for any reason whatsoever, for nothing has any value at all ... compared with the Blessed One’s love. Therefore, [we] should primarily attend to the requirements of God’s service and the rest of [our] time may be for other needs.” Firmly fix in your heart love for God, he says, whether you experience good or whether you experience sufferings and rebukes, for both are tokens of God’s love. As the Proverbs of Solomon tell us, “Despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction: for whom the LORD loveth he correcteth, even as a father [correcteth] the son in whom he delighteth.”
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