“With All Your Heart, Soul, and Might”: The Grammar of Total Devotion in Deuteronomy 6:5
וְאָ֣הַבְתָּ֔ אֵ֖ת יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֑יךָ בְּכָל־לְבָבְךָ֥ וּבְכָל־נַפְשְׁךָ֖ וּבְכָל־מְאֹדֶֽךָ׃ Among the most famous verses in the Hebrew Bible, Deuteronomy 6:5 commands a love for God that is total—with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might. Yet beneath this theological profundity lies a grammatical structure as meticulously crafted as it is linguistically rich.…