Likutei Moharan, Part II 4:6/ליקוטי מוהר"ן·תנינא ד׳:ו׳

16. Now, revelation of Ratzon is through the festivals. Each festival announces, proclaims and reveals Divine Will—that everything is governed solely by His Will—as in “an occasion proclaimed sacred” (Leviticus 23:7). The festival calls out and proclaims Divine Will. On each festival God performed awesome miraculous signs on our behalf; contradictions of nature that reveal Divine Will—that everything takes place through His Will and there is no determinism at all.

2Pesach recalls the exodus from Egypt; that God took us out through awesome miraculous signs.

3Shavuot recalls the giving of the Torah; that He gave us the Torah through awesome miraculous signs.

4Sukkot recalls the envelopment in the Clouds of Glory. Thus each festival announces and proclaims Divine Will, as in “an occasion proclaimed sacred.” The festivals are therefore called “regel ,” which signifies fear of Heaven. Through the festivals, which reveal Divine Will, fear of Heaven is created.

5However, we do not always hear the festival’s proclamation, through which Divine Will is revealed. This can be sensed in the joy of the festival. Each person experiences the joy of the festival commensurate with the degree that he feels and hears the festival’s proclamation calling out and proclaiming Divine Will.

6When Ratzon—that everything takes place through God’s Will—is revealed, then people know that God will take revenge against the nations for all the servitude and exile and all the adversities we suffered at their hands, and He will redeem us from their hands.

7But if we think that everything is determined by the laws of nature, God forbid, revenge against them has no application, since everything is governed solely by the dictates of nature, God forbid. {“The righteous one will rejoice when he sees revenge, he will bathe p’amav (his feet) in the blood of the wicked one. Men will say, ‘There is, indeed, reward for the righteous; there is, indeed, a God Who judges the land” (Psalms 58:11-12) .}

8This is as in “The righteous one will rejoice when he sees revenge, he will bathe p’amav (his feet) in the blood of the wicked one.” Specifically P’ AMav—i.e., by means of “three P’AMim (times) in the year” (Deuteronomy 16:16). This refers to the festivals through which Divine Will is revealed. As a result, “The righteous one will rejoice when he sees revenge.”

9This is also as it is written, “Men will say: There is, indeed, reward for the righteous; there is, indeed, a God Who judges the land.” <When> it is revealed that there is a God who judges as He wills, and that there is “reward for the righteous” and He will take revenge against [those that afflicted] them, <then> “The righteous one will rejoice.” This is the joy of the festivals—i.e., the revelation of Divine Will, revealed on the festival through the proclamation, for the festival announces and proclaims Divine Will.

10However, not everyone hears the festival’s proclamation, on account of the wild animals that claw at and tear apart their prey. These are the deterministic scientists who demonstrate through their erroneous ideologies that everything is caused by the laws of nature, as if there is no Divine Will <whatsoever>, God forbid. Even the awesome miraculous signs that God has performed on our behalf, they associate with nature. These scientists are like wild animals; they prey upon many of our fellow Jews, who mistakenly follow them and think like them, as if [it were true that] everything is determined by the dictates of nature, God forbid. And when they grow strong, the roaring sound <of those wild animals> drowns out the festival’s proclamation, which proclaims Divine Will. As a result, the joy of the festival ceases, God forbid, because the main joy of the festival comes about through the revelation of Divine Will.

11This is the meaning of “Your enemies roared inside Mo’ADekha (Your meeting place), they made their signs for signs” (Psalms 74:4). The roar of the enemies—i.e., the sound of the wild animals, i.e., the deterministic scientists—literally penetrates the Mo ’ED (festival), namely their proclamation, which announces and proclaims Divine Will. The roar of the enemies literally enters them, so that they roar loudly <and demonstrate> that everything is determined solely by the laws of nature, God forbid, according to the order of the heavenly signs. This is “they made their signs for signs”—they turn the heavenly signs into signs, saying that everything is caused by the heavenly signs as determined by nature, God forbid. <This is the reason that not everyone is able to hear the festival’s proclamation.>