Chasidut su Deuteronomio 22:8

When you build a new house, you shall make a parapet for your roof etc. (Deut. 22:8). Now, it is stated in the Talmud of [Tractate] Gittin (7a): “He sent to Mar Ookva, ‘People are attacking...’ he drew lines and wrote to him, ‘Be still before the LORD and he will cast them down before you like so many corpses.’” The meaning is that when people sometimes afflict a certain person, it is because of the judgments against him Above; and [the judgments] clothe themselves in people Below to afflict him as is said about the verse, The LORD is on my side as my helper; I shall see through those who hate me (Ps. 118:7). The explanation: the fact that the judgments clothe themselves Below in people is helpful, since through this he can see what is also the case Above; which is to say, I shall see Above through those who hate me, meaning through the haters below. And the correction for this is to raise himself to the aspect of the world of Thought. For there [in the world of Thought] are no judgments, as is written, evil may not dwell with you (Ps. 5:5). And that means that through his remaining silent and accepting what comes to him, waiting quietly (Lam. 3:26) and elevating his thoughts as is written, Be still before the LORD etc. The explanation is that a person should elevate the silence, meaning the thought, to the LORD; and then they will fall like corpses, meaning the judgments will fall through the attachment of his thoughts to the LORD. And just as the roof is the essence of the house, similarly Thought is the essence of a person and shelters over him. For through Thought a person is preserved and knows how to settle himself as is known; and therefore Thought is called a “roof.”

Deuteronomy 22,8. “when you build a new house you ‎are to surround its roof with a protective railing.” We ‎observe a custom that whenever we experience a pleasurable ‎event we make a point to express our gratitude to G’d not only in ‎our hearts but also with appropriate words. Such words usually ‎contain quotations from the Torah songs extolling the virtues ‎and Power of G’d, and are accompanied by special prayers. The ‎roof of the house of which the Torah speaks, symbolizes that our ‎joy is focused heavenwards. The numerical value of the word ‎גגך‎ is ‎‎26, i.e. equivalent to the numerical value of G’d’s principal name ‎י-ה-ו-ה‎. The Torah reminds us that the new roof that we have over ‎our heads is by grace of Hashem.‎

Now, when a person builds a house it arouses the judgments, particularly outside the Land [of Israel] where it is full of all the emptiness of the world, as is known, and it constricts their borders. Therefore the Torah said, When you build a new house, you shall make, which is the idiom of correction, a parapet [ma’akeh] from the idiom of irritations [me’ikim]; the things that irritate you will be corrected through your attaching yourself Above to the place of Thought, which is your “roof” as we have said. And then, if you attach your Thought to the Blessed Creator, then when the one who falls will fall (Deut. 22:8) – as our Sages of Blessed Memory interpreted, he was destined to fall – for the judgments were destined to fall since the six days of Creation as is known; all of which is to say that the judgments will fall away from you, and understand this.