ספר שמות

Still another approach to the difference between David’s ‎formulation of enthroning G’d forever in psalms 146,10 and how ‎Moses formulated the identical thought in our verse. It is ‎incumbent upon each of us to constantly strive for cleaving to ‎the Lord in feelings of awe and reverence. As long as the human ‎intelligence is still on a relatively low level, the way to ‎compensate for this is through the performance of ‎commandments involving various parts of our bodies. When we ‎have reached a higher level of attachment to G’d through the ‎performance of these commandments, we gradually attain a ‎deeper understanding of the whole concept of G’d as the Creator ‎and King of the universe. David had not been present at the ‎revelation of Mount Sinai when the Jewish people experienced ‎this attachment to their Creator. This is why he had to content ‎himself with first saying the word ‎ימלוך‎, before continuing with ‎mention of G’d’s name. By saying: ‎‏"ימלוך"‏‎, “may He reign,” he had ‎accepted the yoke of heaven, similar to when the Israelites ‎uttered their famous ‎נעשה ונשמע‎, “we will carry out, now let’s ‎hear the commandments,” at Mount Sinai. At the sea, when the ‎Torah had not yet been revealed to the Jewish people, they had to ‎mention G’d’s name first in order to attain the minimum level of ‎attachment to G’d before qualifying for the revelation 6 weeks ‎later. ‎