Dovid HaMelech says בֵּאלֹקִים אֲהַלֵּל דָּבָר, בַּה' אֲהַלֵּל דָּבָר — and the Rebbe brings it backwards. Why?

A shiur on Likutey Moharan Torah 4 — Anochi Hashem Elokecha — working through why a person who knows that everything that happens to him is for his good is already tasting Olam Haba.

What we go through:

• Havaya and Elokim — the Name that is a name, and the One that isn't

• Why there had to be a creation at all, if everything was already one — the Arizal on the yichud of achor b'achor becoming panim b'panim, and why separation is the only road to face-to-face

• Elokim as teva, as malchus, as davar — and why Malchus being in galus isn't your fault

• Every aveira rearranges the tzirufim of Lo yihyeh lecha — the machriv, and v'nokem bo: why it takes revenge on you

• V'sehi avonosam chakukah al atzmosam — why it gets engraved on you personally

• Viduy devarim, and why it is never only about you

• A mashal about a colorblind seventeen-year-old and the color of a new car — three men looking at the same car and seeing three different things

• And the answer to the opening question: the Rebbe is moving us from looking for Havaya through the screen of Elokim, to seeing Elokim through the screen of Havaya

Sources: Likutey Moharan 4 · Tehillim 56:11 · Zecharya 14:9 · Likutey Moharan 1, 2, 61, 62 · the Arizal on the nesirah · Dina d'malchusa dina · b'reishis bara Elokim — ra'ah she'ein ha'olam miskayem, shitef imo midas harachamim

R' Nachman Fried

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