Act VII — The CrownSection 71 of 74
Malchus and the Final Knowledge of G-d
The ultimate revelation may therefore not be the disappearance of the question “Who am I?”
It may be its purification.
The immature self says:
I am because I made myself.
The frightened self says:
If Hashem is everything, I must be nothing.
Malchus discovers a third answer:
I am because Hashem desires that I be.
This preserves both unity and creation.
I am not independent of Him.
I am not identical with Him.
I exist in relation.
This is covenantal ontology.
And perhaps this is why Malchus is the final Sefirah.
There is nowhere deeper for revelation to go than a being capable of standing before the Infinite and saying:
You gave me existence.
I receive it.
I return it.
I will live it.