ספר ויקרא

When David, in psalms 34,16 spoke about the ‎עיני ה'‏‎, “the ‎Lord’s eyes,” he did not mean that G’d possesses “eyes” and other ‎organs in the sense that we understand this in our regions of the ‎universe, but what he means is if, as our sages tell us that the ‎features of the patriarch Yaakov were engraved on G’d’s “throne,” ‎to the question of ”whence did images of such physical organs ‎penetrate the heavenly spheres,” both David and our sages ‎describe how G’d has an enduring reminder of the ‎accomplishment of the righteous and the organs they have used ‎to serve Him and perform His commandments had them ‎‎“engraved“ on His throne as a constant reminder, especially at ‎times when His people experience a spiritual slump. At such ‎times, the “eye” engraved on G’d’s throne may be closed instead ‎of open. When Rabbi Yehudah in Avot 2,1 warned us to ‎look at ‎מה למעלה ממך‎, he did not refer that we should look at G’d, ‎but he meant that we should remember that the image of man ‎engraved on G’d’s throne reflects the condition of man down on ‎earth as the images on G’d’s throne are not static but their ‎condition alternates according to the spiritual condition of His ‎people on earth. This “eye” on G’d’s throne observes what we do ‎on earth; the ears on that countenance of our patriarch Yaakov ‎‎“hear” what and how we speak. Its condition reflects whether ‎what it heard gave G’d pleasure or the reverse. Rabbi Yehudah ‎reminds us that it is what we do down here that determines ‎whether our image in the celestial regions remains a positive one.‎