Likutei Moharan 48:1/ליקוטי מוהר"ן מ״ח:א׳

1“Al Asher Me’altem (This Is Because You Broke Faith) with Me among the Israelite people, at the Waters of Merivah (Conflict) at Kadesh in the wilderness of Tzin…. You will therefore view the land from a distance, but you will not enter it.” (Deuteronomy 32:51-52)

2T ZeYReY is an aspect of “And [God] YiYTZeR (formed)” (Genesis 2:7)—a formation for good, a formation for bad; a formation for reward, a formation for punishment—corresponding to judgment and compassion.

3This is also the aspect of Binah, which is where the fetus is formed, as is written (Proverbs 2:3), “Im (If) you call to Binah .” And there are two aspects there: lovingkindness and judgment. For judgment is aroused from there (Zohar III, 10b).

4And [ Binah ] is an aspect of SuKkah, as is written (Psalms 139:13) , “You SuKeini (covered me) in my mother’s womb.” It also corresponds to the power of prayer—i.e., we pray energetically, [as in,] “All my bones will say” (ibid. 35:10) . And this is the aspect of SuKkah, as is written (Job 10:11) , “You SoKhekheini (shielded me) in bones and sinews.” This is because <the KoaCh (energy)> a person puts into the letters <of prayer> is the Khaf Chet (twenty-eight) letters of the Act of Creation with which the world was created. And the Ten Sayings by which the world was created (Avot 5:1) receive koach from these khaf chet letters .

5Now, the words that a person recites energetically are themselves the words of the Holy One. This is the aspect of “I put My words in your mouth <and with the shade of My hand I covered you>” (Isaiah 51:16) . <“I put My words in your mouth,”> for they are the very words of God. And they are “His koach (powerful) works” (Psalms 111:6).

6And the Sayings by which the world was created are an aspect of lovingkindness, as is written (Psalms 89:3) , “For I said: The world is built on lovingkindness.” And lovingkindness is an aspect of sukkah, an aspect of embracing. This is: “I put My words in your mouth,” then “and with the shade of My hand I covered you”—this being the aspect of sukkah, which corresponds to the shade of the hand, the right hand ’s embrace (Zohar III, 214b).

7However, those words <which contain no holiness> cause an arousal of <another sukkah, an aspect of> a sukkah of idolatry. This is the sukkah of <the nations,> as is written (Psalms 144:11) , “whose mouth speaks lies and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood”—the embrace of the Other Side.

8This is the meaning of “conceal them in a sukkah from quarrelsome tongues” (Psalms 31:21) . For when the tongues of the idolators become overpowering, God forbid, then the Shekhinah (Divine Presence) quarrels with the Holy One. As is written in the Tikkuney Zohar (#21, p.45b) : “Hear, O mountain, the quarrel <with God>” (Micah 6:2) —She riv (quarrels) for the sake of Her children in exile. But in the Land of Israel She is rabi (master), because the letters RIV are turned into RaBI.

9And, in essence, the Land of Israel is the result of “His koach works,” as in, “He informed his people of His powerful works, to give them the heritage of the nations.” But when this koach —the aspect of sukkah —is blemished, then the nations of the world gain power. The right hand of falsehood becomes overpowering, and rabi is turned into riv . Then, She quarrels for the sake of Her children, who have been chased away from their Father’s table and have been expelled from their land.