Song of Songs Rabbah 7:7

¹“How fair you are and how pleasant you are, love, in delights” (Song of Songs 7:7). “How fair you are and how pleasant you are,” how fair you are in the mitzvot, how pleasant you are in the performance of acts of kindness. “How fair you are” in positive mitzvot “and how pleasant you are” in prohibitions. “How fair you are” in the mitzvot of the house, in the distribution of teruma and tithes, “and how pleasant you are” in the mitzvot of the field, in gleanings, forgotten sheaves, produce in the corner of the field, the tithe given to the poor, and in renunciation of ownership. “How fair you are” in diverse kinds, “and how pleasant you are” in a garment with ritual fringes. “How fair you are” in planting, “and how pleasant you are” in orla . “How fair you are” in the produce of the fourth year “and how pleasant you are” in circumcision. “How fair you are” in uncovering “and how pleasant you are” in prayer. “How fair you are” in the reciting of Shema “and how pleasant you are” in mezuza . “How fair you are” in phylacteries “and how pleasant you are” in sukka . “How fair you are” in lulav “and how pleasant you are” in repentance. “How fair you are” in good deeds “and how pleasant you are” in this world. “How fair you are” in the World to Come “and how pleasant you are” in the messianic era. “Love, in delights,” this is the love of Abraham our patriarch, who excused himself before the king of Sodom. That is what is written: “Abram said to the king of Sodom: I have raised my hand to the Lord…if so much as a thread to a shoelace, [or if I will take from anything of yours” (Genesis 14:22–23). Another matter, “love, in delights,” this is the love of Daniel, who excused himself before Belshatzar, as it is stated: “Let your gifts be for you, and your grants [ unvazbeyatakh ] give to another” (Daniel 5:17). Rabbi Abba bar Kahana said: Nevoz means head. There they would call the governor nevuzbezatakh . Rabbi Berekhya said: Your plunders [ bizbuzekha ]; you are plunderers sons of plunderers. The parable says: From one who inherited and not from one who plundered.