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To show that God’s love of Israel in preference to every other nation and tongue is not like the love of equals, nor like natural love, but a free love, due to the will of the lover alone and without any reason, the Bible calls God’s love of Israel by the name heshek (desire): “The Lord … set His love (hashak) upon you … [and] choose you.” The word heshek is applied to extraordinary love without a reason. Thus the love of a man for a particular woman in preference to another more beautiful is called heshek because it is without a reason…
Sefer HaIkkarim, Maamar 3 37:16
THE ETERNAL THY G-D HATH CHOSEN THEE TO BE HIS OWN TREASURE. For you have
no chief, overseer, or ruler
among all the angels on high, but you are the treasure of G-d under His power, and, therefore, you should not go astray to serve idols from among the gods of the peoples. I have already mentioned this many times. This is the sense of the verse,
The Eternal did not set His love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people
, for it would have been proper that the King’s [chosen people should] be the most numerous, as it is written…
Ramban on Deuteronomy 7:6:1
[251] Through desire [a person] can become a vessel for the resting of God's Presence in his heart. This is the the reason for the offerings for the Tabernacle from "Each person according to the giving of his heart" (Exodus 25:2), that through the giving of the heart of the Israelites comes the building of the Tabernacle, bringing God's Presence below. Thus it is according to what each person develops in their heart, as one person's feelings are not comparable to his fellow's. For according to the giving of the heart and strength of his desire to grasp is the dwelling of God…
Tzidkat HaTzadik 251:1
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Desire (חשק אבה)
Desire (אוה)
Choosing
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