ורחוק מפנינים מכרה ...ושלל לא יחסר, And her price is more than pearls...shall lack no fortune.
When two people are in an intimate relationship, they are united against the world. Each desires to be the vessel for all the other has to offer. There will always be outsiders who are desirous to receive from either party to the relationship - from their wisdom, beauty, or something else - but in doing so they are trying to rob the relationship. When each person treats what they have as being more precious than pearls, that there is no price that would allow them to share it with someone outside the relationship, then ושלל לא יחסר, there will be nothing missing from the relationship; each one will feel and know that they have the other in his or her entirety.
The same is true in a relationship between Man and Hashem.
When two people are in an intimate relationship, they are united against the world. Each desires to be the vessel for all the other has to offer. There will always be outsiders who are desirous to receive from either party to the relationship - from their wisdom, beauty, or something else - but in doing so they are trying to rob the relationship. When each person treats what they have as being more precious than pearls, that there is no price that would allow them to share it with someone outside the relationship, then ושלל לא יחסר, there will be nothing missing from the relationship; each one will feel and know that they have the other in his or her entirety.
The same is true in a relationship between Man and Hashem.
Interesting... I find myself disagreeing here... I don't think this is all that realistic... No two people can be everything to each other. People have work colleagues and friends in other settings in realms they do not share with their partner. Also, if one has wisdom to share, for example, it is a mitzvah to share it with the public and not conceal it for only one person... More nuance is required here... This is different, I think, than our relationship with HaKadosh Baruch Hu, which is indeed unique in such a way that only HaKadosh Baruch Hu can be everything, so to speak. No one person can be anyone's everything.
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