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An allusion is given as how best to receive the life force and pleasure of love (which Chassidut calls "the spirit of life") in the verse describing the Creation of man: "And G-d formed the man, dust from the earth, and blew into his nostrils a soul of life, and man became a living soul" (Genesis 2:7). Before blowing "the soul of life," which is love, into man, first he was formed from the "dust from the earth," alluding to the property of humbleness. Ego and an exaggerated sense of importance create high and at times impregnable walls between people. Only an inner sense of humbleness and even lowliness can open the possibility of loving others. The fuller we are with ourselves the less room there is in us for others. Though the existential reality of the soul in the body is by nature limited and finite, the act of loving has the power to lift us above time and space, connecting us to the secret of the essence of the soul, which is in turn connected to the Infinite light of G-d and therefore above time and space. Paradoxically, the more humble and understanding we are in dealing with our own (and especially others') countless shortcomings, the more infinite becomes our capacity to overcome them. Other chapters in this series: |