Likutey Moharan 1 – Free Will is the Crown of Creation – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon. (Lesson 004. Recorded 1988-07-27.)
Effective tefilah – prayer – depends on searching for the intelligence in all things. חן – chein – grace – results from focusing on this hidden light. HaShem’s Name אהיה אשר אהיה – Ekyeh Asher Ekyeh – “I will become what I will become” – is an aspect of Keser/crown) and initiates the creative process of תשובה (return to HaShem). Free will is the “Crown of Creation”.
Rabbah bar bar Chanah said: “This wave that can sink a boat looks as if it’s crowned by a spark of white flame – we strike it with a staff engraved with [the words] Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh.”
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