Midweek Manna - Blessings

And let us return to the issue of “the blessing” (hab’rachah). As it says, and the language of “raising” (n’tilah) as in “and he raised them and exalted them” (Isaiah 63:9), [which means] he raised his hand, to hint at the 10 [s’phirot of God] to open the well and draw the light from the source of everything, since the water hints at [God’s] mercy and abundance. And on this [idea] it says “I reach out my hand for your Commandments” (Psalms 119:48), because there is the place of the commandments and [from where] it is given. And in lifting up [the commandments from the “well”] one blesses Barukh Atah as an intention to draw the blessing from the source of God by way of the King until the house of [His] kingship, and this is “Et Hashem”...

And in the text [in the Talmud, entitled] “How does one bless” (Berakhot 40b) [it reads] “Rabbi Yochanan said: All blessing that does not include sovereignty is not a blessing”...and the reason is to divide/share the glroy of God with the sovereignty of the House of David because there is no wholeness without it, and this is the mysterious unity of wholeness.