כִּֽי־צַדִּ֣יק יְ֭הוָה צְדָק֣וֹת אָהֵ֑ב יָ֝שָׁ֗ר יֶחֱז֥וּ פָנֵֽימוֹ׃
Sapagkat matuwid ang Walang-Hanggan, iniibig Niya ang katuwiran, at iniibig Niya yaong ang mukha'y tumitingin nang matuwid.
Noam Elimelekh
Or say - And Ad-nai appeared to him etc (Genesis 18:1) - beforehand, let's explain the verse "for Ad-nai is righteous; He loves righteous deeds; the upright shall behold His face" (Psalms 11:7). There is in the Gemara "a certain one lead prayers in the presence of Rav Hanina, and that one said 'the great, etc, the fearless' and Rav Hanina asked 'have you concluded all the praise due to your Master?' (Berakhot 33b:22, Megillah 25a:8). And on a first glance, don't we actually praise the Holy Exalted name with many praises that were not said by the Men of the Great Assembly? Yet, see that the Blessed Holy Exalted Name is described with [words such as] compassionate, gracious and righteous. And through the trait with which a person serves their Creator, that same trait is aroused Above, in the Worlds, and the Creator is described by that same trait, and a person needs to serve the Creator with all the traits so as to arouse that trait Above, and when a person arouses that trait they are called tzadik, and then the Blessed Name is described as 'tzadik', and so on in all the worlds. And then a great compassion is aroused towards the world, and all judgments are converted into compassion through that tzadik. And this is "Righteous is Ad-nai", meaning, at the moment the Blessed Name is called 'tzadik' through the continuation of the work of the tzadik, then 'He loves righteous deeds', meaning, compassion and righteousness for this world, and then 'the upright shall behold His face'. The explanation: who caused this? 'the upright, etc', meaning, the upright that looks out always to continue the [presence of] the Blessed Creator to the internalness of the worlds, but 'that one that prayed in the presence of Rav Hanina' that was mentioning the praises through words, did it in a way that implied that the Creator did not create the worlds like that, and therefore Rav Hanina asked 'did you finish praising your Master?'
Noam Elimelekh
Created El-him the heaven and the earth etc - this issue will be explained, but first let us interpret the verse (Ps. 11:7) "because Hashem is righteous, He loves righteous deeds" the explanation is such: behold, we see the ways of humans: the thing they have now is not treasured anymore, rather, people always desire what is out of their reach. But that is not the way of the Blessed Creator. Even though "Hashem is righteous in all His ways" (Ps. 145:17) and does righteousness with all flesh, even though that is the case, God still desires and wants the righteousness of people.
The Gate of Unity
Thus, the aspect of Yesod is called “Righteous – Tzadik” and “Good – Tov,” as stated,12Isaiah 3:10 “Say of the righteous (Tzaddik-צדיק), that he is good (Tov-טוב),” and it states,13Psalms 11:7 “For HaShem-יהו״ה is righteous, He loves righteousness,” that is,14Isaiah 57:15 “to revive the spirit of the humble,” and as stated,15Psalms 145:9 “HaShem-יהו״ה is good (Tov-טוב) to all (Kol-כל).”