창세기 1:2의 차시두트

And the beginning of the miracle was with Avraham, as the Maggid, may his memory be for a blessing in the life of the world to come, regarding the verse "we will go up there" [ad koh כ"ה] meaning, up to the aspect of כ"ה kah of Hanu"kah. And this is what our sages said (Bereshit Rabbah 12:9) "don't read 'at their creation' [בהבראם  behibaram] rather read 'with Avraham' [באברהם beAvraham] - meaning, the first letters of "the generations of heaven and earth" תולדות השמים והארץ are the acronym of תהו chaos, and this is fixed through 'behibaram' that is through 'beAvraham'. BeAvraham באב"רהם has the same gematria as נ"ר lamp, and this is a hint on why they said that the aspect of chaos was fixed through Avraham, with the lamp of Chanukah as explained. This is because he observed the mitzvah of brit milah, which is something that sustains the world, as it is said "Thus said Ad-nai: As surely as I have established My covenant [brit] with day and night - the laws of heaven and earth" (and see Nedarim 32a)

1 The discerning person will contemplate, and the understanding person will know. To interpret the section: "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth, and the earth was unformed and void, etc." And God said, "Let there be light, and there was light, etc." (Genesis 1:1-5).

I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as El-Shaddai etc. (Ex. 6:3). Rashi explained, “Alas for those who are lost and not to be found!” etc. The meaning, as is known, is that the secret of Egyptian Exile is that the True Awareness was in Exile; they could not grasp the Awareness to serve the Blessed Creator, along the lines of what is stated, Know the God of your Ancestor and serve Him (1 Chron 28:9). For in truth, Awareness is the essence that brings one to complete Reverence and Love. For once a person knows and believes that the whole earth is full of [God’s] Glory (Isaiah 6:3) and no place is void of Him, and [God] is the pleasure of all pleasures, Blessed is He and Blessed His Name, Life of Lives – if so, for any of the pleasures if you imagine, God forbid, the absence of the influence of [God’s] Blessed Light and Life-Force among the created things, Creation would return to unformed and void (Gen. 1:2). And similarly for all the Upper and Lower Worlds, if you imagine, God forbid, the absence of [God’s] Life-Force, they would be as if they never were. And if that is the case, then [Awareness of God’s presence] is the essence in all things...