DEUT1009 Saadya Gaon wrote that "The only reason why human beings have been endowed with the love of money is in order that they may take good care of that which God has bestowed on them and not squander it, not for any other purpose." The Book of Beliefs and Opinions, Samuel Rosenblatt, trans. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1948), book 10 chap. 8, p. 380). Saadya's admonition not to squander wealth, and Bahya ben Asher's observation that wealth should not be wasted, relate to the biblical injunction of bal tash'hit (this verse) that enjoins one against wanton destruction or a waste of God-given resources: natural, fiscal, or human. According to a midrash: "When God created the first human beings, he took them around the Garden of Eden and said to them:' Behold My works, how beautiful and commendable they are. All that I have created in My world, I have created for your sake. Be careful not to corrupt or destroy My world; for if you do, there will be no one after you to repair it.'" Ecclesiastes Rabbah 7:12:1. According to the eighteenth-century preacher, Jonathan Eibshitz, of all the temptations toward immoralities one faces, the greatest is posed by money. Ya'arot Devash (Lwow, 1863), part 1, sermon 7, p. 57b. As one is admonished not to waste or misuse wealth, one is warned against the temptations of avarice and arrogance that can readily afflict the wealthy.