시편 119:120 카발라: Sha'arei Orah

In this way, contemplate that the quality of Fear-Pachad-פחד is the place of the Great Sanhedrin and its other courts, within which there are various kinds of intense fire, weapons of war and weapons of destruction, to annihilate, kill, destroy, uproot, exile, and obliterate, all for the purpose of executing the verdict decreed by the Great Sanhedrin called God-Elohi”m-אלהי״ם. About this place King Solomon revealed that even the mighty, the pious Chassidim and the righteous Tzaddikim, are in fear. He thus said,¹⁶²Song of Songs 3:7 “Sixty mighty men surround it, all of them trained in warfare, skilled in battle… from the terror-Pachad-פחד of the night,” about which our sages, of blessed memory, stated,¹⁶³Talmud Bavli, Sanhedrin 7b “From the fear of purgatory (Gehinom) which is compared to night.” Therefore, know that even the highest righteous Tzaddikim are stricken with fear of this Terror-Pachad-פחד, in that even David cried out and said,¹⁶⁴Psalms 119:120 “My flesh shuddered from fear of You-Mipachdecha-מפחדך.” Why? The verse continues and tells us, “and I feared Your judgments-Mimishpatecha-ממשפטיך.” That is, where there is judgment-Mishpat-משפט, there is fear-Pachad-פחד.

Once the verdict has been rendered, the two qualities of Avraham and Yaakov withdraw, these being E”l-א״ל and HaShem-יהו״ה, and the judgment is left to be executed by the hand of Elohi”m-אלהי״ם, as stated,³³³Genesis 18:33 “HaShem-יהו״ה departed when He had finished speaking to Avraham, and Avraham returned to his place,” after which the next verse states,³³⁴Genesis 19:29 “And so it was when God-Elohi”m-אלהי״ם destroyed the cities of the plain.” This is likewise the secret of the verse,³³⁵Deuteronomy 1:17 “For the judgment is God’s-HaMishpat L’Elohi”m-המשפט לאלהי״ם.” That is, the verdict is given into the hand of Elohi”m-אלהי״ם to be fulfilled. This quality is the matter of the Fear of Yitzchak-Pachad Yitzchak-פחד יצחק, who all are fearful of. About this the verse states,³³⁶Psalms 119:120 “My flesh shuddered from fear of You-Mipachdecha-מפחדך, and I feared Your judgments-Mimishpatecha-ממשפטיך.”