What are the implications of "Ve'ram Levavecha Ve'shachachta ... "?
Rashi (on 11:16): It implies that eating to satiation, fine mansions, excessive cattle and sheep, lots of silver and gold and a high living standard 1 causes people to become vain and rebel against Hashem. 2
R. Bachye: It implies that Ga?avah (conceit) 3 causes a person to forget Hashem.
B'rachos 32a: It gives rise to the mantra 'A full stomach is a bad thing'. 4
Sotah, 4b: It implies that a person who is vain is akin to denying Hashem. 5
Oznayim la'Torah: The heart of a Jew is where the Shechinah rests. 6 But when he is vain, the Shechinah leaves him 7 and causes him to forget It.
Listed in Pesukim 12 & 13.
Sha'arei Teshuvah: As long as a person is governed by Ta'avah (desire), he is drawn after offshoots of physicality, and distanced from the ways of the intellectual soul, and his Yeitzer [ha'Ra] overpowers him.
R. Bachye: Which, in turn, is caused by excessive tranquility (too much good).
See Torah Temimah, note 26.
See Torah Temimah, note 27.
As the Torah writes in Terumah Sh'mos, 25:8, "Ve'shachanti be'Socham".
As the Gemara states in Sotah, 5a.
