Without you, if not for your place in the scheme of things, the good order of
heaven and earth would be compromised. The day you were born, that was the day
God made it official. So Rabbi Nachman of Breslov (see below). The
deep background of the affirmation goes like this.
שאילמלא דם ברית לא נתקיים שמים וארץ
שנאמר
אם לא בריתי יומם ולילה חקות שמים וארץ לא שמתי
[ירמיהו לג:כה]
ברכות פרק ו, תוספתא יח
If not for the blood of the
covenant,
heaven and earth would not be preserved,
as it is said:
Were it not for my covenant,
day and night,
the laws of heaven and earth,
I would not have established.
Berachot 6, Tosefta 18
For context and discussion, go here.
Both Judaism and Christianity are “bloody” religions. Though the primary
reference differs – in Judaism, it is the blood of circumcision; in
Christianity, that shed by the Messiah on the cross – in both cases, the blood
of the covenant is the axis on which the world turns.
אילמלא תורה לא
נתקיימו שמים וארץ
שנאמר
אם לא בריתי יומם ולילה חקות שמים וארץ לא שמתי
[ירמיהו לג:כה]
פסחים · סח ב
If not for Torah
heaven and earth would not be preserved,
as it is said:
Were it not for my covenant,
day and night,
the laws of heaven and earth,
I would not have established.
Talmud Bavli, Pesahim 68, 2
If not for the blood of the covenant, if not
for the Torah, but then, by the same token: if not for the one whose blood is
shed, if not for the one who upholds Torah, heaven and earth would not be
preserved.
Ergo:
הַיּוֹם בּוֹ נוֹלַדְתָּ
הוּא הַיּוֹם בּוֹ הֶחְלִיט הקב"ה
שֶׁהָעוֹלָם אֵינוֹ יָכוֹל לְהִתְקַיֵּים בַּלְעֲדֶיךָ
רבי נחמן מברסלב
The
day on which you were born,
that is the day on which God declared
that the world could not be preserved without you.
Rabbi Nachman of Breslov
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