Yehudah ben Tema dit: Soyez audacieux comme un léopard, [… et n'ayez pas honte de demander à votre rabbin ce que vous n'avez pas compris, comme nous l'avons appris: "Le timide n'apprend pas"], et léger comme un aigle [à poursuivez votre apprentissage et ne vous lassez pas, comme il est écrit (Esaïe 40:31): "Ils lèveront l'aile comme des aigles; ils courront et ne se lasseront pas"], et rapides comme un cerf [pour poursuivre les mitsvoth], et forts comme un lion [pour soumettre votre mauvais penchant contre la transgression], pour faire la volonté de votre Père céleste. Il avait coutume de dire: "Le" visage effronté "à Gehinnom" [Cette expression est utilisée parce que le courage est vu dans le visage, à savoir. (Proverbes 21:19): "L'homme méchant est effronté dans son visage"], et le 'visage honteux' à Gan Eden. "Que ce soit Ta volonté, OL rd notre D.ieu, que tu bâtisses ta ville à la hâte de nos jours et donnez (nous) notre part dans votre Torah. [Autrement dit, tout comme vous nous avez accordé ce trait (de honte), les signes de la semence d'Abraham sont la honte, la miséricorde et la bonté, ainsi, peut ce sera ta volonté, etc.]
Kitzur Shulchan Arukh
Yehudah son of Taima says: "Be bold as a leopard, light as an eagle, swift as a deer and strong as a lion to do the will of your Father in heaven."4Avos 5:20. "Bold as a leopard" means, you should not be ashamed before people who mock you for worshipping Hashem, Blessed be His Name. "Light as an eagle" refers to what the eye sees. This alludes to the requirement to be swift to close your eyes to prevent the seeing of evil because the sight of evil constitutes the beginning of sin. The eye sees and the heart desires and the organs capable of action culminate the sin. "Swift as a deer" refers to the legs, for your legs should run to do good things. "Strong as a lion" is a reference to the heart, because true valor in serving the Creator, Blessed is He, emanates from the heart. He also states: "Strengthen your heart to serve Him, and overpower your evil inclination and defeat it as a hero triumphs over his enemy, defeating him, and casting him to the earth."
And I will say that the matter of all of the sacrifices is to arouse the thoughts of the one that offers [them]; and according to that act, he shall take its similarities into his soul — all as we have already written (Sefer HaChinukh 95, 116). Hence in distancing chamets, which is made with great delay, he will take the similarity from his sacrifice to acquire the trait of alacrity, of lightness and of speed in [doing] the act of God, blessed be He. And as they, may their memory be blessed, said (Mishnah Avot 5:20), “Be[...] light like the eagle, swift like the deer, and mighty like the lion to do, etc.” And we are obligated in the matter with the meal-offering of individuals more than with the communal meal-offering; since discouragement and laziness are found more with the individual — as the many will warn one another. And therefore the Torah did not concern itself about this with a communal meal-offering that comes from time to time, such as two breads of [Shavuot]. But with the bread of display — even though it is also called a communal meal-offering — since it is a constant meal-offering on each and every Shabbat, the Torah concerned itself about it and also commanded us about it that it should be matsah.