Likutei Moharan 33:9/ליקוטי מוהר"ן ל״ג:ט׳

19. { I heard in [Rebbe Nachman’s] name that he said this lesson encompasses the kavanot -meditations of lulav. I did not, however, merit hearing an explanation of the matter. Yet I delved into it and found a bit.

2The essence of the meditations of lulav is to draw all the benevolences to the chest, to shine them into Malkhut. Thus we shake [the lulav] in the different directions in order to draw the light from the root of the benevolences in Daat to the benevolences that are spread out in the body, to amplify them with a great light from their root in Daat . See there, in Pri Etz Chaim, Shaar HaLulav. Also explained there is the intent behind the verse, “Daily God commands His lovingkindness”—that it does not say “day” but “daily,” because [this day] goes with all of them. See there.

3All this is explained above in this lesson, in Rebbe Nachman’s awesome way. For it is explained there that by subduing the inclination one merits revealing the love, which is the lovingkindness, the day that goes with all the days. In other words, the love, which is the lovingkindness, is clothed within all the attributes…. And there it is explained that there is love that is in Daat which is above time and the attributes. Thus, by binding his heart to his daat, he has control of his heart… then the attributes receive the light of the love that is in Daat …, as explained.

4As mentioned, all this is the esoteric meditations of lulav, which is to draw radiance from the root of the benevolences in Daat, this being the aspect of love that is in Daat, into the benevolences in the body. The latter encompass all the attributes, because clothed in all [the attributes] are benevolences, which are an aspect of love, as explained. And all this is in order to shine into Malkhut (Kingship), which is the etrog —i.e., to reveal His Kingship to the entire world, to find His Godliness in all the languages of the nations, in all corporeality, and in all the abodes of the forces of evil. For all this is an aspect of “His Kingship rules over everything” (Psalms 103:19).

5And all this is accomplished by the tzaddik who subdues his inclination. This is because he corresponds to the lulav, which, as is known, is an aspect of tzaddik, corresponding to “The tzaddik blooms like a date-palm” (Psalms 92:13). For on Sukkot we work to reveal His Kingship to the entire world, even in the seventy languages of the nations. This is the deeper meaning behind the seventy oxen we sacrifice on Sukkot on behalf of [the nations].

6And this is why after taking the lulav and making the hakafah -circuits with it, we say: “so that all the peoples of the earth will know that God is the Lord, there is no other” (1 Kings 8:60).

7All this is clarified in this lesson, as is explained in greater detail above. Yet, deeper study is still required in order to fully explain all the meditations of lulav based on the above lesson. May God enlighten us in his teaching, so that we merit understanding his awesome and wondrous words and allusions.}