The following is a quote from the Sefer HaIkkarim.
The Torah describes the love of Hashem for the Jewish Nation as חשק (Cheshek). The word חשק connotes a great love for no explainable reason... even if there is someone more attractive. That is how Hashem loves the Jewish Nation - for no reason. The entire Shir HaShirim (Song of Songs) is dedicated to probing this love. It not based on numbers or on any qualitative distinction, it is a love without reason which emanates from the will of the Lover alone. It is the manner of one who is in love that even a small thing that he or she receives from the one they love is more pleasing than a great thing from someone else. So too it the attitude of Hashem to anything that reaches him from the Jewish Nation.
The Torah describes the love of Hashem for the Jewish Nation as חשק (Cheshek). The word חשק connotes a great love for no explainable reason... even if there is someone more attractive. That is how Hashem loves the Jewish Nation - for no reason. The entire Shir HaShirim (Song of Songs) is dedicated to probing this love. It not based on numbers or on any qualitative distinction, it is a love without reason which emanates from the will of the Lover alone. It is the manner of one who is in love that even a small thing that he or she receives from the one they love is more pleasing than a great thing from someone else. So too it the attitude of Hashem to anything that reaches him from the Jewish Nation.
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