Hassidout sur La Genèse 16:11

I will sustain My covenant between Me and you: It is known that the right is called the trait that impacts, and it is called the trait of kindness, as it is written (Psalms 89:3), "The world is built by love." For the world was created with the trait of kindness. Whereas the left is called the trait of power which restricts and limits the impact. So the world was created according to both of them. Well-known are the words of our Rabbis, may their memory be blessed, that there was an expansion of creation with no end, until the Holy One, blessed be He, rebuked [it], and said, "Enough!" And that is the limiting force. And behold that between the trait of the right and the trait of the left, there is a middle trait which is the determinant, and it is called the righteous one, foundation of the world. It receives from them and regulates the impact in proper order. And that is called the establishment of the covenant (brit), as is well-known. And behold each source of impact must have a corresponding receiver. For without that, it cannot impact. So it is certainly fitting that the receiver should be in the form of the source of impact, meaning right, left and the middle trait. And this is [the meaning of] that which is written, "I will sustain My covenant between Me and you." And that is the secret of, "it is a sign between Me and the Children of Israel." And the enlightened one will understand. And alongside, I will explain that which the Ari, may his memory be blessed, wrote about the intention in the eighteen blessings (of the daily prayer) with the last letters of, "Your name is great, and You are fitting to praise (lecha naeh lehodot)," which is the [Godly] name, kaf, hey, tav, see there: It appears that the reason is because the last three last [blessings] is where the unification is made. And there must be protection that the impact not be lost, but received. That is why he wrote to have intention for this name, which is good for pregnancy. As this name is the limiting force, and it comes out from the last letters of, "behold you are pregnant and will give birth (hinach harah veyoladet)" (Genesis 16:11), see regarding this in another place. And behold that the Ari, may his memory be blessed, wrote that in the blessing, "Place peace" (the last of the eighteen blessings), one should have the intention for the name of the Lord (the Tetragrammaton), together with the name, God (Elohim) interspersed. That is alef, yod, lamed, hey, hey, vav, yod, hey, mem, see there. And this is with the secret of the unification that includes the source of impact with the receiver, and likewise the name of the Lord with the name, God. And the order of joining the beginning of the name with its end is alef-mem (spelling, em, mother), such that the receiver should form the impact in the form of an embryo. So it is called, em; which leaves the letters,yod, lamed, hey, which has a numerical count of mem, hey (a mystical name of God), through which unification is done. And their other letters, hey, vav, yod, hey, together with yod, lamed, hey is 71, corresponding to [the members of ] the Sanhedrin, which sat in a circular half threshing floor. And the one who understands will understand.

‎Genesis 16,8 or Genesis 16,11., “The angel of G’d said to her (Hagar) etc.” It is ‎somewhat surprising that whereas Manoach upon realizing that ‎he had seen an angel was afraid that he would die forthwith, ‎‎(Judges 14,22) Hagar did not react with fear at all. The reason may ‎be that the angel which appeared to Hagar had appeared as an ‎angel in the garb people expected angels to appear in. The angel ‎that had appeared to Manoach and his wife had assumed human ‎form, though he had looked awe-inspiring, so that Manoach and ‎his wife had assumed that he was merely a prophet. When upon ‎his departure to the celestial regions in the smoke rising from ‎Manoach’s offering, it turned out that they had seen a heavenly ‎being, Manoach reacted with fright, and his wife had to calm him ‎by showing that his fear was quite unreasonable. (Verse 20-23 ‎there).‎