Hasidut untuk Mazmur 16:11

Similarly, we find in the Midrash Sochar Tov: “How may a young man make his path pure? By serving according to Your word” (Tehillim 119), Shlomo said, “In all your ways know Him.” If you know and are conscious of God in all that you do, He will straighten the paths before you. Thus, it is said (Tehillim, 16), “Make the path of life known to me.” So too, Moshe said to God (Shemot, 33), “Now, if I have found favor in your sight, let me know Your ways.” And also (Tehillim, 25), “Lead me in Your truth, and teach me, for You are the God of my salvation.” And (Tehillim, 86), “God, teach me Your way.” And it is written (Yermiyahu, 6), “Stand on the roads and see, and ask about the ways of the world, and see which is the good way. Then walk in it, and find rest for your soul.” Look at the path that Avraham took, and look at the path that Nimrod took, and see who succeeded. So too did David say, “And you, Shlomo my son, know the God of your fathers, and serve him.”

Scripture also says: “Tell me the ways to live, to be sated with joy in Your presence.” (Psalms 16:11). Lulav is numerically equal to hayyim (life), Israel desire the true life of their inner selves. This is what it means to be “sated with joy” – the more deeply you take life into your heart, the more you are sated. This happens through the lulav and the species that accompany it. Israel actually point to God, taking in the light of the Sukkah, which is given to them as a gift. When the King invites guests, he gives them what their heart desires. “Whoever invites someone does so with the intent that they eat and drink.”

This the explanation of this verse (Psalms 16:8) "I have set Hashem before me always". In other words, the perception of G-dliness, as explained above. "He is at my right hand; I shall never be shaken". (Id.) The essence of the building of the Malkhut of Lower Wisdom, as explained above, is through the aspect of 'right' which is Chesed, as it is written there. Through the Chesed, (she) cuts herself off from the 4 Malchuyot and elevates herself to the Light of the Face that are in the Three Festivals, which are the aspect of 'joy of the heart' by means of the mitzvot which we do all during the year, etc., see there. And this is 'He is at my right hand; I shall never be shaken'. In other words, through the aspect of 'right', which is Chesed, 'I shall not be shaken'. By this I will not be shaken nor will I fall into their intellegences, G-d forbid, in the aspect of external wisdom. G-d forbid. Rather, I will only be strengthened to elevate my intellect to the perception of G-dliness, which is the aspect of 'I have set Hashem before me always', as explained above. And this is (Psalms 16:9) "Therefore my heart rejoices, my whole being exults". 'My heart rejoices', this is the aspect of joy in the heart of the mitzvos that are done, which is the aspect of the Light of the Face in the Three Festivals. From there is the lifeforce of Malkhut. This is the aspect of 'kavod' (can be translated as 'honor' or 'glory'), the aspect of the King of Glory. And this is 'therefore my heart rejoices', which is the Light of the Face of the Three Festivals, the aspect of (Proverbs 15:13) "A joyful heart makes a cheerful face", as it is written there. Because of this, 'my whole being exults', for happiness and the lifeforce of Malkhut is drawn down, the aspect of 'glory'. Because of this (Psalms 16:9) "and my body rests secure". This is the the flesh of the body, because for this was man created - so that he will conquer his body by means of toiling and exerting in Torah and mitzvot. For man, to toil in birth is to toil in Torah, as our Rabbis of Blessed Memory stated (Sanhedrin 99) that it is required to toil in Torah and service, and to sanctify and purify oneself so much so that one merits to illuminate, even with his body, the illumination of the perception of His Blessed G-dliness. Because the true, great tzadik encircles us with awesome rotations like these, and with wondrous contractions like these, until the perception of G-dliness is illunimated within us, in our midst and in our bodies, so we will come to this illuminated body. This is the essence of unity, to know that all the illuminations and comprehension that our soul comprehends (and obtains) is also for the body, as it is written in Likutei Moharan 22, 'a seal within a seal'. And this is the aspect of 'and my body rests secure'. Also one's actual flesh rests secure through meriting its life even in its body, to know his Creator through the true tzadik who illuminates for him the perception of G-dliness, as explained above. And this is (Psalms 16:10_ "For You will not abandon me to Sheol". The soul is the aspect of Malkhut, as is known, i.e. the aspect of Lower Wisdom as explained above. And this is 'For You will not abandon me to Sheol', that my portion of Malkhut will not fall, the aspect of my Chidushei Torah (new Torah thoughts), which is the aspect of 'for you will not abandon me to Sheol', G-d forbid. (Sheol) which is external wisdom, the Other Side and the subversive kelipot that strive to overpower mankind at every moment, which he must pull himself out and come to the perception of G-dliness, as explained above. However I am certain that He will not abandon my soul to Sheol, "or let Your faithful one see the Pit" (Id.) 'Your faithful one', this is the aspect of the Rabbi, the true tzadik who engages in his rectification, for through his merit and strength I am certain that He will not abandon my soul to Sheol, for 'He will not let His faithful one' - who is the Rabbi, the true tzadik - to see the pit. In order for him not to see the pit, to not need to see or look there at any time , to elevate us from there. For if, G-d forbid, we would be in Sheol and the pit, then for certain the rabbi who is the true tzadik would look there at every moment with great sadness in order to elevate us from there. He is engaged in our tikun at all times and therefore through his merit and strength I am certain that He (meaning Hashem) will not abandon my soul to Sheol, that His faithful one - the true tzadik - see the pit. And this is (Psalms 16:11) "You will teach me the path of life. In Your presence is perfect joy; delights are ever in Your right hand". That He will teach us the way and the path to come to true life, to bring down vitality for the lifeforce of the aspect of Malkhut, as explained above. This is through the Light of the Face of the Three Festivals, which is the aspect of 'joy in the heart', the aspect of 'In Your presence is perfect joy' etc., as explained above.