DEUT1674 … certainly this love [of God] must not be conditioned upon anything, such as loving the Creator, blessed the He, because He is good and grants wealth and success. Rather, it must be like the instinctual love of a son for his father, whereby his nature forces him and compels him to feel this way, as it says [this verse]: "Is He not your father Who acquired you?" The test of this type of love comes in times of distress and suffering. Our Sages of blessed memory have said (Berachos 54a): "'You shall love the Eternal, your God, with your whole heart and with your entire being' (Devarim 6:5) even if He takes your life;' and with all your might' (ibid.) means with all of your monetary possessions."