Question: Why does Rabash call the measure of judgment “Elokim” in the article “What Is, His Guidance Is Concealed and Revealed?”?

Answer: The Creator in His governance in several forms appears to us, but not as Atzmuto; rather, as it is said, “By Your actions we know You.” His actions toward us are the nine Sefirot relative to Malchut.

Malchut, by making a restriction, a screen, and reflected light upon herself, takes in the first nine qualities, and wishes to resemble them. Then it turns out that the screen and the reflected light are the Kli of Malchut, her attitude toward the upper, according to the principle “as He is merciful, so you be merciful.” That is, to the extent that I reveal how He relates to me, to that same extent I accept it and relate to Him likewise, and no more.

One of the Creator’s attitudes toward us is called “Elokim.” It is said to be the measure of judgment. How can there be a measure of judgment in the first nine Sefirot?

Judgment is a limitation on the part of the creation, when it cannot always accept the Creator’s governance as good and doing good, cannot perceive it as such, and therefore this bestowal appears to the creation as the category of judgment. This is what is meant when we say that the light builds the darkness. If the Creator is revealed to Malchut in a state where she cannot accept Him, she feels Him as darkness.

What is Elokim? When Malchut rises to Bina, she brings her limitation into Bina, and according to this limitation, Bina’s bestowal is divided relative to Malchut into “Mi” and “Eleh”—“Elokim.”

When Malchut rises to Bina, on the one hand she raises the measure of judgment there, and on the other hand the desire to acquire the qualities of Bina. Then Malchut herself begins to remove the measure of judgment, and to the extent that she acquires the qualities of bestowal from Bina, she can realize them.

Then this name Elokim operates in full. “Mi” and “Eleh” join together: “Mi” is Galgalta ve Eynaim, “Eleh” is AHAP. Thus the name Elokim is revealed.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/25/26, Rabash, “What Is, His Guidance Is Concealed and Revealed?”

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