Cytowanie Komentarza do Psalmów 115:18

A rational approach to these lines: every nation is obligated to serve its Creator but not in the same degree as the Israelites. G’d has extended Himself on behalf of the Jewish people as He has not done for any other nation. The Jewish people are the only ones who have an intimate knowledge of G’d as “Hashem.” Idolaters are not even allowed to praise G’d using that attribute as we know from David in Psalms 145,21 תהלת ה’ ידבר פי, ויברך כל בשר שם קדשו לעולם ועד ואנחנו נברך י-ה, “the praise of the Lord my mouth will proclaim, but all flesh will bless His holy name forever.” The psalmist distinguishes between how Israel and the rest of the nations relate to the Lord even while praising Him. The reason that at the end of that verse the Jewish people say ואנחנו נברך י-ה, “let us bless the attribute י-ה instead of the full tetragram, is that these two letters describe the terrestrial world which was created with the letter ה, and the celestial regions which were created with the letter י of the tetragram. Seeing that the psalmist says מעתה ועד עולם הללויה, “from now (on terrestrial earth) until forever (in the hereafter and the perfect world to come),” the letters י-ה were quite appropriate in this psalm.