Light of the Infinite: The Genesis of Light

Psychologist Barbara Fredrickson suggests that with positive emotion (joy, gratitude, calm, hope, compassion etc.), “Our vision literally expands, allowing us to make creative connections, seeing our oneness with others, and facing our problems with clear eyes.”

Avraham, the father of the Jewish tradition, discovered the Truth by searching what it meant to be his true self and the responsibilities that come with that, while those around him had fallen to worshiping desires and other false idols.

Rambam teaches that acting according to the letter of the law is mishpat (justice), while improving one’s good qualities is known as tzedek (righteous).

each of us is tasked with not only upholding the covenant of Avraham, but of doing right with all the blessings that come from it—going inward to elevate ourselves to the most high, and spiritualizing reality, which inspires all those around us to do the same.

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.

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.

with all the seemingly unending descents, hardships and ways to break our strides, we can’t let it pull us down. We have to keep moving; keeping our soul’s essence and the ultimate purpose of spiritualizing reality until our own redemption, both prati (personal) and klali (public/general) become actualized into the final redemption and the redempti

sometimes to go further in, you have to go further out.

We are B’nei Yisrael because we are meant to live in this world, to deal in materialism, but to continually find ways to elevate it.