4 lines from the top of pay gimmel.
This is what is said in haggadah – moreh gadol is shchinah. Shchinah usually relates to malchus, but there is also the level where it is in atzmus itself, without relation to worlds – this is like melech blo am and it is where the king and the people are ultimately rooted.
Morah gadol alludes to the unity of him himself, and his shchinah – this bestows below the element of yirah. Yirah pnini is brought about by the revelation of light.
Normally we say ahvah/love is by closeness and yirah/fear is by distance. However there are different types of yirah – chitzoni and pnimi. Chitzoni is a yirah affected by sechel. You recognize something and stay away – you don't get to know that, which you are fearing. Then there is yirah pnimi – it is not just the principle of staying away – it is a full recognition of the inyan (which usually involves closeness), a recognition that it is greater than that which you can really recognize.
There are many levels – the lowest and most comprehensible to the greatest. The smallest is a glimpse of the greatest – if you don't have deep down the greatest, you can't have the smallest. The sense of reality we have at this table is based also on the entire surroundings up to and beyond the level of world/cosmos etc.
this yirah gadol has the meaning that every small level of yirah is rooted in a deeper sense that there is such a thing as respect. Ultimately there is a sense in the person that there is a primary truth – without that there is nothing. All that a person understands is only because there is a a deeper sense that there is an ultimate truth – this is malchuscha, malchut kol olamot.
Thus the smallest opening “open for me the eye of a needle and I will...” will ultimately lead to the full opening to ultimate truth.
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