Likutei Moharan 33:4/ליקוטי מוהר"ן ל״ג:ד׳

14. This is known! inherent in the Torah—the attributes/days—is God’s love, as is written in the holy Zohar (III, 191b): “Daily God commands His lovingkindness” (Psalms 42:9). For the lovingkindness—which is love, as is written (Jeremiah 31:2), “I have loved you with an everlasting love, therefore I extend lovingkindness to you”—is the day that goes with all the days, i.e., the attributes.

2For the attributes are contractions of his Godliness, so that we might be able to comprehend Him by means of His attributes. As is written in the holy Zohar (II, 42b): “So that we might know Him.” For without His attributes, it is impossible to comprehend Him.

3And because of the love with which He loved Israel and He wanted them to attach themselves to Him and to love Him from this corporeal world, He clothed His Godliness in the attributes of the Torah. This is the aspect of the 613 commandments: God calculated in His Daat (Knowledge) that by means of this [or that] mitzvah we would be able to comprehend Him. Because of this, He contracted His Godliness specifically in these 613 commandments.

4For example, He calculated in His Daat the mitzvah of tefilin, that this mitzvah has to be such: four portions of the Torah, four compartments of leather, [hand] written, and straps of leather. For this is what He calculated in His Daat, that by means of this contraction we would be able to comprehend and serve Him. He therefore did not command that there be four compartments of silver or gold. But this is what He calculated and measured by virtue of His love.

5We see, therefore, that by virtue of His love with which He loved Israel, He clothed Himself in the attributes of the Torah. Thus it is that in each and every attribute there is love; the love which the Holy One has for Israel. Consequently, that person who removes from the Torah the garments of the evil forces by subduing His inclination, is then close to peace. As is written, “and all her paths are peaceful.”

6Now, the Torah has two aspects: the revealed aspect and the hidden aspect. This hidden aspect is the Torah of Hidden Ancient One, which is destined to be revealed in the Future. And, when this Torah of the Hidden Ancient One will be revealed, then the peace in the world will be wondrous. As is written (Isaiah 11:6,9), “The wolf will dwell with the lamb, and the leopard with the kid…. They will do nothing evil or vile in all of My sacred mountain, for the land will be filled with the knowledge of God.” For then the love in His Daat will be revealed.