אות - טו

He said: It is a great wisdom and craft[32] to be like an animal. And this is in the aspect of [Exodus 36:1]: *"Whoever Hashem has placed wisdom — in him"* [reading: wisdom is placed in one who makes himself like an animal (behaimah)]. That is, it is wisdom to make oneself like an animal. (And as our Sages o.b.m. said [Chulin 5b] on the verse [Psalms 36:7]: *"Man and animal You save, Hashem"* — these are people who are clever in knowledge but make themselves like animals. And as Asaf said [Psalms 73:22]: *"And I was brutish and did not know; I was like an animal before You."* And see elsewhere on this.)