Light of the Infinite: The Genesis of Light

The fact that I controlled my mind from considering even a single thought from the Torah may be accounted equal to having observed the whole of the Torah.”

to put so much perpetual focus to not focus on something keeps you just as connected, if not even more.

it is often when we have our own high expectations of how something should play out that we are the most disappointed with what we receive.

Hashem’s light even in a place seemingly devoid of it. In our own lives, we need to eliminate our safek, our Amalek, the nations and notions that attempt to force us to turn away from faith and alignment.

Hashem says to them: “Are not the righteous satisfied with what is stored up for them in the world to come that they wish to live at ease in this world too?”

Yakov doesn’t see each moment as being a movement, a slow death march, or an infinite repetition, but rather he sees that within time, there is the space that offers the possibility of being present, of elevating moments, and of redemption at any moment. And knowing that time is full of struggles, as well ups and downs, but specifically within thos

Esav’s reality is stuck within the conception of material temporality, which is a being moving towards death; every moment a whisper of imminent and inevitable mortality.

even if the world is full of Esavs, ruled by Edom, we still have to emulate Yakov, perpetually refining ourselves and those around us (“sheep, servants, and maidservants”) for the Ultimate Redemption.

realizing that what Hashem gives isn’t only to fulfill one’s own mission, but that of the missions of those that preceded him. And so valuing possessions not only because they allow him to reveal the Light of Infinite in this world, but also because they allow him to further the state of completion of the souls that came before him.