“If I go up to heaven, there You are. And if I descend into hell, Behold, You are there.” (Tehilim, 139:8) “If I go up to heaven” teaches of a time when You raise me up in an exalted state with good effusion and the intellect rules over me. “There you are,” this is clear to me. This is as it is written (Divrei haYamim 1, 29:14), “all things have come from You, from Your own hand have we given to You.” “If I descend into hell” means even at a time when my intellect is constricted, then too, my desire is to know that You are the One, and the power is in Your hands. This is, “behold, You are there.”
אִם אֶסַּק שָׁמַיִם שָׁם אָתָּה וְאַצִּיעָה שְּׁאוֹל הִנֶּךָּ. "אִם אֶסַּק שָׁמַיִם" מוֹרֶה בְּעֵת שֶׁאַתָּה מַעֲלֶה וּמְנַשֵּׂא אוֹתִי בְּשֶׁפַע טוֹבָה וְהַשֵּׂכֶל מוֹשֵׁל עָלַי, "שָׁם אָתָּה" זֶה בָּרוּר לִי כְּמוֹ שֶׁכָּתוּב (דברי הימים א' כ"ט,י"ד) "כִּי מִמְּךָ הַכֹּל וּמִיָּדְךָ נָתַנּוּ לָךְ", "וְאַצִּיעָה שְּׁאוֹל" הַיְינוּ, אַף בְּעֵת אֲשֶׁר נִקְטַן שִׂכְלִי גַּם אָז תְּשׁוּקָתִי לְהַכִּיר כִּי אַתָּה הוּא וְהַיְכוֹלֶת בְּיָדְךָ, וְזֶהוּ "הִנֶּךָּ".
“If I go up to heaven, there You are. And if I descend into hell, Behold, You are there.” (Tehilim, 139:8)
“If I go up to heaven” teaches of a time when You raise me up in an exalted state with good effusion and the intellect rules over me. “There you are,” this is clear to me. This is as it is written (Divrei haYamim 1, 29:14), “all things have come from You, from Your own hand have we given to You.” “If I descend into hell” means even at a time when my intellect is constricted, then too, my desire is to know that You are the One, and the power is in Your hands. This is, “behold, You are there.”