We normally say, “The Place [Creator] will fulfill your need,” “The Place will comfort you.” Our sages said, “He is the place of the world, and the world is not His place.”

“Place” refers to the place of creation, which the Creator created. By His desire to do good to His creations, He created existence from absence a place for them to receive the delight and pleasure that He wants to impart upon them. It follows that this place, meaning creation, should be filled with the light of the Creator, which is to do good to His creations. It follows that “Blessed is the place” means that we bless Him for creating the place.

It therefore follows that if the place has not yet been filled, and there is concealment of the face in this place, we say that this place must be filled with the light of the Creator. Although it is still not revealed to us, we must believe that “The whole earth is full of His glory,” and “His servants ask one another, ‘Where is the place of His glory?’”

Accordingly, the meaning of “The Place will fulfill your need” means that this lack, the concealment of the face, which causes all the lacks, will be filled, namely that it will be in revelation of the face.

Also, we say, “The Place will comfort you among the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem.” That is, because all the afflictions that exist in the world derive from the concealment of the face, we say “The Place will comfort you.” In other words, this place called “creation,” which He created with the intention to do good to His creations, will be in revelation of the face, and then “They shall all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them.”

This is the place of the world, meaning that He fills the lack of the world, but the world is not His place. In other words, the world does not fill His lack because He has no lack that needs to be filled. That is, the only reason we need to work in order to bestow is only for our sake, so as to have equivalence of form, and not that He needs anything.