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.]
Shulchan Arukh, Orach Chayim
One should strengthen himself like a lion to get up in the morning to serve his Creator, so that it is he who awakens the dawn. Rem"a: At least, one should not delay beyond the time when the congregation prays (Tur). Rem"a: "I have set the Lord before me constantly" (Psalms 16:8); this is a major principle in the Torah and amongst the virtues of the righteous who walk before God. For a person's way of sitting, his movements and his dealings while he is alone in his house are not like his way of sitting, his movements and his dealings when he is before a great king; nor are his speech and free expression as much as he wants when he is with his household members and his relatives like his speech when in a royal audience. All the more so when one takes to heart that the Great King, the Holy One, Blessed Is He, Whose glory fills the earth, is standing over him and watching his actions, as it is stated: "'Will a man hide in concealment and I will not see him?' - the word of God" (Jeremiah 23:24), he immediately acquires fear and submission in dread of God, May He Be Blessed, and is ashamed of Him constantly (Guide for the Perplexed III 52). And one should not be ashamed because of people who mock him in his service of God, and should also go modestly. And when he lies on his bed he should know before Whom he lies, and as soon as he wakes up from sleep he should rise eagerly to the service of his Creator, May He Be Blessed and Exalted (Tur).
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Sefer HaChinukh
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 flag 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 [Shavouot]. 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 matsa.
