My son, if your heart is wise, then my heart will be glad—a father's declaration that his own joy is bound up in his son's wisdom, establishing that parental happiness depends on filial righteousness. The emotion 'glad' (yismach) describes rejoicing; the parent's fulfillment is found in the child's virtue. The theological significance involves the principle of intergenerational blessing.

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