Likutei Moharan 46:2/ליקוטי מוהר"ן מ״ו:ב׳

12. Clapping hands also mitigates the judgments. For there are three HaVaYaH. These correspond to the three hands: the great hand, the strong hand, and the exalted hand. Now, the right hand is “a great hand”; the left hand is “a strong hand”; and while striking they join together—this is the aspect of “an exalted hand.” And the words that emerge issue from the throat—[with its] numerical value of three times ELoHIM —which is mitigated through the three HaVaYaH.

2This is the explanation of “My soul is constantly in my hand, [v’Toratkha lo shakhachti (I did not forget Your Torah)]” (Psalms 119:109). The soul is an aspect of speech, as is written (Song of Songs 5:6), “My soul came forth when he spoke”—i.e., an aspect of prayer, as is written (Job 18:4), “He tears his soul apart in anger.” “In my hand”—this is an aspect of clapping hands, through which “V’toratkha Lo Shakhachti (I did not forget Your Torah).” The first letters, ShaLeV, have the same numerical value as three HaVaYaH and three ELoHIM —i.e., the mitigation of the judgments.

3Forgetting is also essentially from constricted awareness, from the aspect of Elohim. But when a person mitigates Elohim through his hands—<through which he is in an aspect of expanded awareness>—as a result “I did not forget Your Torah.”

4And this is the explanation of “Ki bi (Because for Me) he yearned, I will deliver him” (Psalms 91:14). “KI BI (Because for Me)” has a numerical value of forty-two, which is three times YaD (hand) equals forty-two. The yearning in the heart is revealed in the hands, <as explained elsewhere, the spirit that pulsates in the heart enters the hands. We see, then, that through the yearning in the heart it comes into the hands>. This is the aspect of clapping, through which “I will deliver him”—corresponding to mitigating the judgments.