But not only on a national level; הַמַּשְׁפִּילִי לִרְאוֹת בַּשָּׁמַֽיִם וּבָאָֽרֶץ – ‘He dwells on High and nevertheless He looks down low’ means all the way down, even to the ‘lowly’ individual Jew. Even though you think you’re unimportant, you're only a little fragment of protoplasm on the face of this earth. A person on Mars wouldn't see you. A person on the moon wouldn't see you, you're so little. But Hakadosh Baruch Hu is high above them and yet He sees you. He keeps His Mind on every individual Jew.
So therefore if you’re a Yisroel and you stand and talk to Hashem, when you stand and praise Hashem, it’s good to know Whom you’re speaking too. You're not talking to a Being that's right down here, a little taller than you are. You're talking to Somebody Who is so tall that He goes all the way up into space. Way past Mars and Jupiter, way past Andromeda, way past the Milky Way, He's so great Hashem! How High Hashem is! You're standing before Hashem who is so tall that He's standing way into space. And at the same time, as much as you recognize His Greatness, you should understand that Hakadosh Baruch Hu despite מַּגְבִּיהִי לָשָֽׁבֶת, despite that He's so tall that He's into space, still, מַּשְׁפִּילִי לִרְאוֹת. He’s most interested in you.
He’s listening to you and therefore you have to be careful what you say. מַּשְׁפִּילִי לִרְאוֹת בַּשָּׁמַֽיִם וּבָאָֽרֶץ. If while you're talking to him, you'd be thinking about something else—you're taking a trip, let's say, to Europe while you're talking to Him, you’re praising Him, but in your mind you're traveling around the world. You’re singing Hallel, a beautiful niggun, but you’re on a safari in Africa? Oh no, that's no way to talk to Hashem! Hashem is so great that we should be spellbound and hypnotized by the fact that we're talking to Him. We’re talking to the One Who is Most High but Who lowers Himself kavayachol to think about us.
