시편 82:6의 인용

Let us preface by interpreting a verse in Tehillim: "I said: you are elohim, children of the Most High, all of you; yet like any human you shall die" (Psalms 82:6–7). For we have written many times that one who is a tzaddik is called ish Elohim — as it is written, "Moshe, the man of God" — because one who is a tzaddik is master of the dinim, and the dinim are in the tzaddik's hand, to be inclined wherever the tzaddik desires: to subdue them and to sweeten them. And the tzaddik is the judge — for judges are called elohim — and as the tzaddik judges and decrees below, so it is established; for when there is judgment below, there is no judgment above. Therefore through this the tzaddik can annul all the dinim from Israel, and all the decrees; and therefore one who is a tzaddik is called ish Elohim — meaning, master of Elohim. And this is what we say in the Gemara: "The Holy One decrees, and the tzaddik annuls, as it is said: You shall decree a word, and it shall be established for you" (Iyov 22:28). At first glance — how is it proved from here that the tzaddik annuls what the Holy One decrees? The plain sense of the verse is that when the tzaddik decrees, the Holy One fulfills! But by the words above it sits well: when the tzaddik judges below and decrees, there is no judgment above — and of themselves the decrees are annulled.

And this is the interpretation of "I said: you are elohim" — that you be cleaving to God through the rung of Elohim, namely the negative commandment, Lo yihyeh lecha; "and children of the Most High" — namely the positive commandment, Anochi, which is supreme over all; and thus you are cleaving to the eternal Life. "Yet like any human you shall die" — that is: when you interrupt yourselves from the devekut.