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KING DAVID



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His Life
The Psalms


From Rabbi Nachman of Braslav Likutey Moharan, first part lesson 49

Now knowledge of the [Hidden] Kabbalah - i.e., knowledge of the Torah's [hidden] mysteries - will essentially be in the Future. Then, the Torah of the Ancient One will be revealed, in the aspect of the delight of Shabbat - corresponding to "then you will delight over God."

This is the connotation of tiShReI; it connotes < ShIR > (song). And
< in Nissan there is > PeSaCh - < i.e., > Peh SaCh (a mouth that speaks). As it is written (Isaiah 30:29), "The shir will be for you as on the night when the festival is sanctified." For < then > song and melody will be roused in the world, in the aspect of peh sach, in the aspect of "so that glory might sing to You and not be stilled" (psalms 30:13). Specifically "and not be stilled" - i.e., a mouth that speaks. "Glory" is the aspect of "the King of glory" (Psalms 24:7), and of "SaRah over the entire world," the aspect of the ShiR of the Future.

This is also the aspect of tzitzit - i.e., the aspect of t'kheilet, which utterly consumes and devours. For as a result of the revelation of Malkhut of Holiness, the Malkhut < of Evil > is eliminated.

{"But you who are attached to God your Lord, you are all alive today"(Deuteronomy 4:4).}

However the Jewish people, who are attached to [ Malkhut], will receive their vitality < from her > . As it is written in the Zohar (I, 51a): "But you who are attached to God your Lord" - this being the aspect of t'kheilet, which utterly consumes and devours - nevertheless, "you are all alive today." For the essence of the vitality comes from there, in the aspect of "David, king of Israel, is alive and enduring" (Rosh HaShanah 25a).

This is also the aspect of KaLah (a bride), the aspect of t'KheiLet, which consumes and devours KoLa (utterly). But the Jewish people, who are attached to her, are alive and enduring. This corresponds to "for I will make KaLaH (an end) of all the nations. . . < but I will not make an end of you >" (Jeremiah 30:11).

This is the meaning of "But David's soul teKhaL (longed)" (2 Samuel 13:39). David's soul is the aspect of t'kheilet, < as is known > . And this is the aspect of (Berakhot 3b): A northern wind would blow on David's harp and it would play. "A northern wind" is the aspect of judgments, gevurot (severities), the aspect of t'kheilet. Melody comes from there, in the aspect of "From the corner of the earth we heard song" (Isaiah 24:16). Specifically "corner," for it is the aspect of t'kheilet. Thus, the aspect of "the sweet singer of Israel" is from there.

This is the aspect of the heh, a dalet with a yod. The dalet is the aspect of the "four corners," corresponding to "From the corner of the earth." The yod is the aspect of the Ten Kinds of Song, corresponding to "we heard song."










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