Likutei Moharan 15:2/ליקוטי מוהר"ן ט״ו:ב׳

12. And with what is fear elevated? With the aspect of judgment. As it is written (Proverbs 29:4), “Through judgment, the king will establish the land.” And land corresponds to fear, as in (Psalms 76:9), “The earth feared.” That is, a person should judge all his actions, as is written (Psalms 112:5), “He conducts his affairs with judgment”—i.e., he should himself judge and evaluate all his actions.

2By doing this, all fright is removed from him and an aspect of a clear and pure fear emerges. Only fear of God remains, no other fear. For when a person does not evaluate and judge himself, he is then evaluated and judged from Above. This is because “when there is no judgment below, there is judgment Above” (Devarim Rabbah 5:4). And when a man is judged with the judgment of heaven, then justice becomes clothed in all things and all things become God’s messengers for executing “the written judgment” (Psalms 149:9) upon this man. As our Sages taught: “To Your judgments they were steadfast…,” and thus “all are Your servants” (Psalms 119:91) —so as to execute justice upon this man (Nedarim 41a).

3{“And he that puts right the way, to him I will show the salvation of the Lord” (Psalms 50:23).} However, when a person judges himself, when there is judgment below [so that] there is no judgment Above, then fear does not clothe itself in anything in order to rouse the person. This is because he has roused himself. This is the meaning of, “And sam (he puts right) the way…”—someone who evaluates his ways (Sotah 5b). In other words, he judges the way he acts, as in (Exodus 21:1), “These are the judgments which taSiM (you shall put)….”

4As a result, “… to him I will show the salvation of the Lord.” This corresponds to fear, as in (Ecclesia st es 12:13), “And the Lord shall you fear.” In other words, the aspect of fear ascends from the evil husk and the nations by means of judgment. For, originally, [fear] was clothed in the evil husk. This is why a person is afraid of something—the authorities, thieves, or anything else which causes him to be afraid—because fear has clothed itself in that thing. For if fear had not clothed itself in that thing, the thing itself would not have had the ability to frighten the person.