Likutei Moharan 14:11/ליקוטי מוהר"ן י״ד:י״א

111. This lesson applies to the following verses (Psalms 145:9-11): “God is good for all, and His mercies are upon all His works. All Your works will praise You, God; Your pious ones will bless You. They will speak of the glory of Your Kingdom and talk of Your might.”

2“God is good for all.” This is the aspect of prayer; that the person believes in God, that the Holy One is good for all: for health, for livelihood, for all things [a person needs]. When a person believes this, then the main focus of his efforts will certainly be for the Holy One, rather than pursuing all kinds of strategies. This is because when one does not believe in the Holy One, he must work at all kinds of strategies. For example: If he is sick, he must work at getting all sorts of medicines. And there are times when the particular medicines he needs are not available in his country, whereas those medicines that are available are useless for his illness. The Holy One, however, “is good for all” illnesses—to heal them. He is also always available, as is written (Deuteronomy 4:7), “Who is… like God our Lord is, whenever we pray to Him!”

3And through prayer, a person merits universal peace. This is the meaning of, “His mercies are upon all His works.” In other words, God’s mercies are drawn upon all created beings. The created beings will have mercy for one another, and there will be peace between them. As it is written (Isaiah 11:6,9), “And the wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid… they shall not harm or destroy”—for there will be peace between them. This is: “His mercies are upon all His works.” As our Sages taught: Whoever has mercy on [God’s] creations, Heaven has mercy upon him, as is written (Deuteronomy 13:18), “And He will give you mercy and have mercy upon you” (Shabbat 151b).

4Afterwards, the verse explains how to merit prayer, [in that] through peace in the home one achieves inner peace—between his body and soul, as above. And this is: “All maaseykha (Your works) will praise You.” [The word] maASeYkha corresponds to ASiYah, the body.

5“And chasidekha (Your pious ones) will bless You.” ChaSiDekha alludes to the soul, as in (Proverbs 11:17), “The man of CheSeD (kindness, piety) is beneficent to his own soul.”

6Then the verse explains how to merit peace in the home: by elevating the glory of the Holy One to the source of fear, which is called “mighty.” This is: “They will speak of the glory of Your Kingdom”—His glory will be revealed and ascend to its source. And thus, “… and talk of Your might”—“might” corresponds to fear. As our Sages taught: “And the Lord does it so that they should fear Him” (Proverbs 3:14) —this refers to thunder (Berakhot 59a) ; and it is written (Job 26:14), “But who can understand the thunder of His might?”