Kabbalah Hosea 3:5: Reshit Chokhmah

With all the types of Anava ('humility') that we find down in our world, we find it also with Hashem, which we can compare to the moon. Just like the moon [is humble] as it diminishes itself and its light, so too with Tzaddikim, as it is explained in mesechet Chullin (page 60:2), "that Hashem calls Tzaddikim by their name, 'Yaakov haKatan' (Yaakov the small), 'Shmuel haKatan,' 'Dovid haKatan' -- Dovid [haMelech] -- who was like a chariot in this attribute diminished his own self worth, as he would says about himself, "I am young and 'nivzeh'." (Tehillim 119:141) While the moon makes itself smaller (just like anything 'kedusha' makes itself smaller), [klipah] makes itself bigger. Just as it is described in the Zohar (Zohar, parshat Pekudei, page 232:2), "and Dovid haMelech, he lowered himself before Hashem. And all that lower themselves before Hashem, He will elevate you with everything. In general, [there is a difference] between this world ('Olam Hazeh') and the next world ('Olam Haba'). In 'Olam Hazeh,' as it says, "וגנותי על העיר הזאת למעני ולמען דוד עבדי," meaning, I planted you here in this city for me and for DOVID MY SERVANT. [In other words, in this world, the reference to greatness is in Dovid haMelech, who was referred to as a SERVANT of Hashem.] In 'Olam Haba,' as it says (Hoshea 3:5), "ובקשו את ה' אלהיהם ואת דוד מלכם וגו'," [In other words, in the 'Olam Haba,' 'Hashem your G-d' is written as being at the same level as Dovid haMelech. So humility in our world is lowering one's self; humility in the spiritual world is depicting the person at the level he is at.] Dovid was king in 'Olam Hazeh,' and Dovid was king in 'Olam Haba.' (In both places, he is considered a king.) The difference is that in this world, it is said (Tehillim 118:22), "אבן מאסו הבונים היתה לראש פנה," meaning, the stone that is scorned (thrown away) by the builders has become the cornerstone.