Daily Tanya

But how can physical man attain this level of G-dly love that nothing can obstruct?

It is to this end, therefore, that the blessing of Yotzer Or was introduced to be recited first, for in this blessing, there is stated and repeated at length—and this meditation must indeed be a lengthy one, taking into account all the specific details—the account and order of the angels “standing at the world’s summit,”

in order to proclaim the greatness of the Holy One, blessed be He—how they are all nullified in His blessed light and “pronounce in fear…and sanctify…G-d’s Name and declare in fear, ‘Holy’…,” meaning9 by saying “Holy” that He is apart from them and does not clothe Himself in them in a revealed state,

rather where is G-d revealed? “The whole earth is full of His glory,” namely, the Community of Israel above i.e., malchut of Atzilut, the source of Jewish souls, which is called “earth,” and Israel on this earth below, wherein Jews perform Torah and mitzvot, for which reason specifically is this world filled with His glory: it is here that G-d clothes and reveals Himself, as has been explained earlier.

So, too, we find in the aforementioned blessing of Yotzer Or,10 regarding other categories of angels, whose place is in a lower world than the Serafim and who are therefore unable to comprehend how G-dliness is separate and apart, that “the Ofanim and the holy Chayot with a mighty sound” declare: ‘Blessed be the glory of the L-rd and may it be drawn down from its place,’”11 for they neither know, nor do they apprehend, His place—the place from which G-dliness is revealed, for which reason they say “from its place,” wherever that place may be,

as we say a few lines later, “For He alone is exalted and holy.”