Forefathers/[the Patriarchs]

''With all your heart'' corresponds to Avraham, of whom it is said ''and You found his heart to be faithful before You''; ''with all your life'' corresponds to Yitzhak - who was ready to give up his life at the `Aqeidha; ''and with all your wealth'' corresponds to Yaakov - who gave up all his wealth to acquire the Cave of the Makhpela, as the verse says: ''in my grave that I purchased for myself'' - that he put up all his wealth like a heap - to I Samuel 1, verse `alas libbi.

Avraham fixed ''with all your heart'', Yitzhak - ''with all your life'', and Yaakov - ''with all your wealth'' - to Adderet Eliyahu III, 22:31 [244], and this is adduced from Sifri, ibid.
(Note: The Vilna Gaon changed from the wording in Sifri, also leaving out the proof from ''everything that You give me, I shall surely tithe for You'' as well as that derived from Yaakov's being acquitted of robbery (Maimonides, the end of Hilkhot Sekhiruth, and Midrash Bereishit Rabba to the verse ''now that you have felt all my belongings''. For, on the contrary, Yaakov gave all his wealth for Eretz-Israel, as we have seen in ''in my grave which I have purchased for myself'' - he put up all his wealth like a heap for acquiring the land of Eretz-Israel).
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