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“The actual Essence of God is love,
inexhaustible, unbounded love. Where both this love and the name of
God are unrecognised and God therefore finds it necessary to maintain
and preserve His glory from lack of recognition and waywardness, it
is 'כבוד
ה the
glory of God which procures recognition by storm, judgement and
punishment. Where God appeares in punitive form, as in the overthrow
of the Egyptians, and with devoted love, as in the liberation of
His people, He reveals Himself ובעצמו
בכבודו
in His glory and His whole real Being. Here God
appears on the one hand as the sublime, unapproachable and inviolable
Holiness, who disseminates death and fear, whereas on the other hand
He appears as the source of all love and blessings, all existence and
hope, or expressed in other terms: as
הקדוש
on the one hand,
and ברוך
הוא the other. קדוש
expresses
the concept כבודי
(ונקדש
בכבודי )
whereas the description of עצמו
in shortened
from is ברוך
הוא”
R' Marcus Lehman, Passover Haggadah, pp. 131-2
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