The Meaning of Our G-d
Our G-d is the G-d
That's what he continues and says, מִי כַּה' אֱלֹקינוּ – Who is like our Hashem Who dwells on High. Our Hashem is above everything else. No nation, no people, nobody else can make that claim. הוּא ה' אֱלֹקֵינוּ – He is Hashem, our G-d! (ibid. 105:7). The One Who is pulling all the strings is ours!
And what does it mean ‘ours’? So the end of that possuk says בְּכָל הָאָרֶץ מִשְׁפָּטָיו – in all the world are His judgments. What’s the connection between the first half of this possuk and the second half of the possuk? “He is Hashem our G-d and His judgments are all the world.” So people think it means we’re praising Him, that His power is all over the world. But that’s not the pshat because then what’s the connection between the two parts of the possuk?
The pshat is, ‘He, Hashem is Our G-d, and therefore whatever He does in the world, all of the judgments in the world are in the role of our G-d; which means He does it because of us.’
The Energy Source
Again, let’s study that possuk. הוּא – Who is He? ‘הוּא ה – He is the Borei Who made everything come into reality; it’s only His will that exists in the universe. His word ‘Yehi’ is the source of all reality.
Hakadosh Baruch Hu is the source of the energy that caused everything to come into existence. You know everything is energy. Not only processes of nature are energy, all matter is a form of energy. א-ל means energy and the Keil Elyon means He is the uppermost source of energy. Hakadosh Baruch Hu is the One Who creates energy.
And so when you see a dime, a piece of silver, you must know that it’s nothing but energy. If you would exploit it according to the proper method, the metal would turn into energy. Of course you have to be careful if you do that because there’s so much energy in half of a dime that it could explode a city once it’s let loose. All that energy is crystallized into a little bit of matter and it’s all from the Keil Elyon, the uppermost energy.
Energy for Jews
And now the possuk comes along and says, do you know what all this is about, this tremendous release of energy that came into the universe at that time, trillions and trillions of tons of horsepower in energy were released at that time? It was only for one purpose, הוּא ה' אֱלֹקֵינוּ – He’s our Hashem. בְּכָל הָאָרֶץ מִשְׁפָּטָיו – and therefore all of His judgments, all of His acts in the entire universe are done only because of us. Hakadosh Baruch Hu is manipulating everything, all world events, for Amo Yisroel.
And so we say, מִי כַּה’ אֱלֹקינוּ הַמַּגְבִּיהִי לָשָֽׁבֶת – Who is like Hashem, our G-d, that He sits up so High, above everything and everyone, but He does everything only for the Am Yisroel. Everything that takes place in the world is directed by the One Sitting Up High, in His role as Elokeinu, our G-d.
